New Mexico Coops and Tri-State G&T in Rate Battle
Posted on Dec 11, 2012 in Legislative & Politics, Litigation, Rates, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on New Mexico Coops and Tri-State G&T in Rate Battle
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative and two other New Mexico coops are battling a rate increase proposed by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State). Specifically, the coops filed a protest calling for a public hearing on the rate increase. The coops cited a New Mexico law that allows the Public Regulation Commission to call a hearing on rates if three or more...
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...
Emerson to Lead NRECA
Posted on Dec 5, 2012 in Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Emerson to Lead NRECA
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) has a new leader. U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, a Missouri Republican, announced that she will be retiring from Congress in February to take the helm of the NRECA. When asked about the decision, Emerson stated, “. . . [t]hese are the people who provide electricity to my constituents…and the rural electric coops are what built...
CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Coops
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 in Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on CFTC Issues No-Action Relief for Coops
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk granted qualifying coops no-action relief from the mandatory clearing requirement for swaps that meet certain conditions as further delineated in the no-action letter. The conditions are similar to those offered in the proposed coop exemption rule issued by the CFTC last summer. The relief is effective until the...
Texas Coop Opposes New Emergency Drought Order
Posted on Nov 28, 2012 in Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Texas Coop Opposes New Emergency Drought Order
Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC), the nation’s largest electric coop, may be faced with an inadequate water supply after the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) decided last week to approve a new drought emergency order. The new emergency order reduces the amount of water required to be in certain reservoir lakes used by PEC to cool its generators. Before the new emergency...
Wolverine and We Energies to Jointly Own Presque Isle Power Plant
Posted on Nov 27, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Wolverine and We Energies to Jointly Own Presque Isle Power Plant
Wolverine Power Cooperative and We Energies will pursue joint ownership of the Presque Isle power plant in Marquette, Michigan. This decision also included the addition of state-of-the-art emission controls at the plant. Wolverine will acquire a minority interest in the facility by funding and constructing the air quality control additions, a job estimated to cost $130 to $140...
House Democrat Calls for Grid Security Legislation
Posted on Nov 26, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Reliability, Technology | Comments Off on House Democrat Calls for Grid Security Legislation
Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, a top House Democrat, has called on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Republican chairman, Michigan Representative Fred Upton, to help corral GOP support and pass an electrical grid security bill the pair co-sponsored. Markey says that physical and cyber threats to power infrastructure were increasing and that the Grid Reliability and...
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...
New Partners Sought for Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant
Posted on Nov 13, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on New Partners Sought for Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant
Kansas City Power & Light Co. and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, two of the owners of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant located near Burlington, Kansas, are seeking new partners to help operate the plant. Citing operational issues such as extended outages and increased regulatory oversight as reasons, the owners are soliciting proposals to fill this role. Click here for...
Border Facility Finally Getting Power
Posted on Nov 12, 2012 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Border Facility Finally Getting Power
A new outpost to house U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents in southern New Mexico is finally getting a power line upgrade from the Columbus Electric Cooperative in Deming. The project has experienced a year-long delay because federal planners failed to make sure the local power coop could provide enough electricity. It wasn’t until final construction...
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