EPA Proposes Carbon Standards for New Power Facilities
Posted on Sep 21, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on EPA Proposes Carbon Standards for New Power Facilities
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a news release outlining carbon standards for new power facilities. The EPA will consider comments and hold a public hearing before completing the rulemaking process. For more information, click here.
G&T Coop to Share Emissions Reduction Technology with Chinese Company
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on G&T Coop to Share Emissions Reduction Technology with Chinese Company
An emissions reduction technology developed by Minnesota-based Great River Energy (GRE) will now have an international impact. GRE has signed a 10-year licensing and technology transfer agreement to make its DryFining™ technology available in China. The DryFining™ technology will be used by Shenzhou Manufacturing Co., which provides coal processing equipment that serves mines and...
Alaska Coop Finalizes Financing to Purchase Plant
Posted on Sep 16, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Financing, Legislative & Politics, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Alaska Coop Finalizes Financing to Purchase Plant
Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) of Fairbanks, Alaska, has finalized financing from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Cooperative Finance Bank to purchase the 50-MW Healy Clean Coal Project from the State of Alaska. The Cooperative Finance Bank will finance the purchase of the plant, which will be renamed “Healy Unit 2,” while the RUS loan will finance new emissions...
White Paper Argues EPA Cannot Limit Power Plant Emissions
Posted on Sep 16, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on White Paper Argues EPA Cannot Limit Power Plant Emissions
Attorneys general from 17 states recently submitted a white paper to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Administrator, arguing that Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act limits the EPA’s authority to develop procedures to guide states in establishing emissions standards for existing power plants. The white paper is in response to an expected revised EPA rule directly capping...
NRECA Voices Concern Over Proposed EPA Startup and Shutdown Rule
Posted on Sep 13, 2013 in Environmental, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on NRECA Voices Concern Over Proposed EPA Startup and Shutdown Rule
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) voiced concerns that some cooperatives may not be able to satisfy, in a timely manner, the new rule on startup and shutdown of coal-based generation designed to limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants. Among other concerns, NRECA called for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider how compliance with the...
Virginia Has a New Biomass Plant
Posted on Sep 12, 2013 in Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Virginia Has a New Biomass Plant
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative and NOVI Energy’s 49.9-MW biomass plant was recently connected to the PJM regional electric transmission grid and will continue pre-commercial operational testing for several more weeks. The $170 million plant uses waste wood from Southside Virginia’s logging industry to fuel the facility and will recycle wood ash. Read more here.
Court Denies Request to Delay Pollution Control Upgrades
Posted on Sep 12, 2013 in Environmental, Litigation, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Court Denies Request to Delay Pollution Control Upgrades
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a request by Arizona and four utilities, including Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO), to delay Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional haze requirements while litigation against the new rules remains pending. AEPCO previously appealed the requirements requesting that it use an Arizona Department of Environmental...
Operation Cool Shade Promotes Trees to Save Energy
Posted on Sep 10, 2013 in Climate Change, Energy Savings Programs, Environmental | Comments Off on Operation Cool Shade Promotes Trees to Save Energy
Once again Mohave Electric Cooperative is rolling out Operation Cool Shade, which promotes the use of shade trees to manage energy use in the hot summer months. Coop members will be able to buy trees for $8 and, as a bonus, will receive a free compact fluorescent bulb for each tree purchased. Operation Cool Shade trees will be sold from September 11-24 or until the trees sell out. ...
Washington Company Earns Large Energy Savings Rebate
Posted on Sep 4, 2013 in Energy Savings Programs, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency | Comments Off on Washington Company Earns Large Energy Savings Rebate
Plum Creek Timber Company (Plum Creek), based in Seattle, Washington, received a $386,635 energy savings incentive check from Flathead Electric Cooperative (FEC) of Montana and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal non-profit agency based in the Pacific Northwest. Plum Creek became eligible for this rebate under the FEC/BPA Energy Smart Industrial Program for an energy...
Coops Urge EPA to Accept Wyoming’s Haze Pollution Plan
Posted on Sep 3, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Rates, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Coops Urge EPA to Accept Wyoming’s Haze Pollution Plan
If coops and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association get their way, Wyoming’s plan to control haze from the power sector will be fully approved as compliant with federal law. Comments submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) argue that Wyoming’s approach is reasonable, and electric coop consumer-members would pay more than necessary if the EPA goes forth with...
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