North Carolina Coop Seeking Addition of Transmission Line in a Wilderness Area
Posted on Mar 11, 2013 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Land Use, Project Development, Reliability | Comments Off on North Carolina Coop Seeking Addition of Transmission Line in a Wilderness Area
A Rutherford County coop may end up in conflict with ecologists after seeking to run a 12-mile, high-voltage power line through an area of unbroken forest that is currently part of a conservation zone. Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation says the proposed line would prevent brownouts in a rural community of 1,900 families but ecologists counter that the line would run a...
Alaska Bill Could Allow Coop Activity in Protected Area
Posted on Feb 18, 2013 in Environmental, Land Use, Legislative & Politics, Litigation | Comments Off on Alaska Bill Could Allow Coop Activity in Protected Area
A bill moving through Alaska’s legislature would eliminate wilderness restrictions in a portion of a Bristol Bay region state park to allow a utility to study a hydroelectric project on a lake where development now is banned. So far, in observance of a 10-year-old management plan approved by local residents, state park officials have refused to allow Nuvista Light & Electric...
South Carolina Town Receives Land Donation
Posted on Feb 5, 2013 in Innovation/Efficiency, Land Use, Regulation & Policy, Technology | Comments Off on South Carolina Town Receives Land Donation
The town of Bluffton, South Carolina, is offering seven acres of land in its May River Technology Park to attract more private businesses. However, Bluffton did not have to tap into tax revenues to buy this land. It was donated by Palmetto Electric Cooperative and Hargray Communications. In return, these entities will be allowed to forgo state license fees. Bluffton also is...
Delaware Coop Breaks Ground on New Solar Farm
Posted on Jan 29, 2013 in Climate Change, Grid & Infrastructure, Land Use, Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Delaware Coop Breaks Ground on New Solar Farm
The Delaware Electric Cooperative (Delaware Electric) has begun construction of a 20-acre, 16,000-solar-panel, solar energy farm in Sussex County, Delaware. It will be one of the largest solar farms in the state and is expected to cost $14 million. Delaware Electric hopes the project will be online by May 2013. Read more here.
Kansas Coop Brings Attention to Private Transmission Considerations
Posted on Jan 24, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Land Use, Legislative & Politics, Permitting, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Kansas Coop Brings Attention to Private Transmission Considerations
Wheatland Electric Cooperative of Kansas is alerting others to potential concerns regarding the construction of private transmission lines to meet increased oil and gas exploration in the Mississippi Lime Play, which is an underground formation across southern and western Kansas and northern Oklahoma. If energy companies begin building their own electric transmission infrastructure,...
Kroll Bond Rating Agency Issues Updated Report on Fracking
Posted on Jan 15, 2013 in Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Land Use, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Kroll Bond Rating Agency Issues Updated Report on Fracking
Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has issued an update to its report on the state and local credit risks of high-volume hydraulic fracking of the Marcellus and Utica Shale Basins, located below New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The report, available here, discusses the estimated economic impact from the recovery of these fossil fuel resources. These resources are so large...
Michigan Agency Extends Permit for Installation of Coal Plant
Posted on Jan 14, 2013 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Land Use, Permitting, Project Development | Comments Off on Michigan Agency Extends Permit for Installation of Coal Plant
A coalition of Michigan electric utilities, which includes Cherryland Electric Cooperative, recently received an extended permit from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for the construction of a contested coal plant project However, utility officials, including those representing Cadillac-based Wolverine Power Cooperative, have not announced if they intend to follow...
SMECO Looks to Expand Solar
Posted on Jan 3, 2013 in Financing, Land Use, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on SMECO Looks to Expand Solar
A 5.5-MW solar farm developed by Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) has proved worthwhile, and the coop is now looking to build a second solar facility. SMECO’s efforts will help it satisfy a Maryland state law, which requires utilities to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2022, with two percent of that portion coming from solar energy produced in...
Lawsuit Filed Against New Mexico Coop
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 in Land Use, Legislative & Politics | Comments Off on Lawsuit Filed Against New Mexico Coop
The Jicarilla Apache Nation filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming eminent domain rights over a portion of the Northern Rio Arriba Electric Cooperative’s (NORA) electric system that runs across tribal land. NORA responded to the complaint claiming that the Jicarilla Apache Nation lacked jurisdiction and failed to satisfy arbitration procedures in place under the parties’ franchise...
Oklahoma, Kansas Face Power Line Shortage During Oil and Gas Boom
Posted on Nov 27, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Land Use, Project Development | Comments Off on Oklahoma, Kansas Face Power Line Shortage During Oil and Gas Boom
The developers working in the oil and natural gas fields in the Mississippi Lime formation in northwest Oklahoma and western Kansas need electric generators to drill, but the electricity for these generators has proven to be insufficient in parts of the region. These rural areas do not usually have load problems, so new infrastructure needs to be built rapidly, according to Western...
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