Hawaii Regulators Approve Kaua’i Island Solar Power Purchase Agreement
Posted on Dec 11, 2012 in Climate Change, Environmental, Financing, Project Development, Rates, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Hawaii Regulators Approve Kaua’i Island Solar Power Purchase Agreement
The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has approved a 20-year power purchase agreement between the Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative and REC Solar for its 300-kilowatt, MP2 Hawaii Solar Project in Koloa. This will be the 36th-largest renewable energy project in Hawaii. Read more here.
Utah Coop May Challenge California Greenhouse Gas Trading System
Posted on Dec 10, 2012 in Climate Change, Environmental, Litigation, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Utah Coop May Challenge California Greenhouse Gas Trading System
Utah-based Deseret Power Electric Cooperative (Deseret) may file a lawsuit challenging California’s greenhouse gas trading system. Although the coop has declined to comment on the potential lawsuit, “one informed source” asserts that Deseret may be seeking other businesses to join in this effort. The lawsuit would likely claim that the trading system violates either the...
Federal Judge Clears the Way for Alaskan Coal Plant
Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Climate Change, Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Litigation | Comments Off on Federal Judge Clears the Way for Alaskan Coal Plant
A federal judge has approved an agreement among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state of Alaska and an Alaskan power company that will allow a coal plant to reopen by 2015. Under the agreement, Golden Valley Electric Association agreed to install the most rigorous emission controls available on coal-fired electric generating units at the Healy Clean Coal Plant at an...
Department of Energy and Western Area Power Administration Issue New Proposals on Hydropower
Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Environmental, Rates, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Department of Energy and Western Area Power Administration Issue New Proposals on Hydropower
On November 27, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Western Area Power Administration’s joint outreach team laid out a set of proposals in a Federal Register notice that are aimed at reforming Western’s hydropower marketing amid electrical grid upgrades. The DOE and Western say their recommendations would improve Western’s operations and optimize its transmission services but some...
Coops Lend Aid to Others in Sandy Aftermath
Posted on Nov 1, 2012 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure | Comments Off on Coops Lend Aid to Others in Sandy Aftermath
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, cooperative crews have banded together to help restore service to the millions of people who were affected by the massive storm. Crews from the Gulf Coast, Midwest and Southeast were dispatched to the areas in the mid-Atlantic and New England where service was disrupted due to the storm. Arkansas Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI), based in Little...
Georgia Coop Protects Endangered Fish
Posted on Oct 24, 2012 in Environmental | Comments Off on Georgia Coop Protects Endangered Fish
Georgia Transmission Corporation (GTC), based in Tucker, GA, and federal wildlife officials have partnered together to protect the Cherokee darter, a one- to two-inch fish, by preventing sediment from entering its primary habitat. The fish, which has been on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Endangered Species List since 1994, is found only in streams in the Etowah River basin,...
Lowell Mountain Wind Project Survives Legal Challenge
Posted on Oct 22, 2012 in Climate Change, Environmental, Litigation, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Lowell Mountain Wind Project Survives Legal Challenge
Green Mountain Power and Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. can proceed with the construction of an industrial wind project on Lowell Mountain, as the Vermont Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the project. The 21-turbine Kingdom Community Wind project is due to come on line in December 2012. The project’s challengers, Lowell Mountains Group Inc. and the towns of Albany...
Alaskan Coop to Restart Coal Facility
Posted on Oct 5, 2012 in Environmental, Permitting, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Alaskan Coop to Restart Coal Facility
After reaching an agreement with federal regulators over an air permit, Golden Valley Electric Association plans to restart the 50-MW Healy Clean Coal Plant. While restarting the plant will require additional pollution controls and other work, the coop plans to have the plant online within 18 to 24 months. Restarting the plant is part of the coop’s long-term plan to move away from...
Wisconsin Coop Receives Huge Federal Loan Guarantee for Renewable Power
Posted on Oct 4, 2012 in Climate Change, Environmental, Financing, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Wisconsin Coop Receives Huge Federal Loan Guarantee for Renewable Power
Dairyland Power Cooperative (Dairyland) was awarded a $261.9 million loan guarantee from the federal government to reduce environmental impacts, update technology and improve distribution in a swath of the rural Midwest. Renewable energy sources make up about 12 percent of Dairyland’s electricity sales, which exceeds the state’s 2015 requirement that all Wisconsin utilities have at...
North Dakota’s Electricity Case against Minnesota Survives First Legal Challenge
Posted on Oct 3, 2012 in Climate Change, Energy Savings Programs, Environmental, Legislative & Politics, Litigation | Comments Off on North Dakota’s Electricity Case against Minnesota Survives First Legal Challenge
A federal judge has ruled that the state of North Dakota’s case against Minnesota can move forward, as North Dakota has a “plausible” claim that a 2007 Minnesota energy law is invalid due to preemption by federal law. Minnesota’s Next Generation Energy Act bars new coal-fired power plants in Minnesota and restricts out-of-state imports of new coal-based power generation unless the...
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