September 14, 2015 SPP is preparing for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan by beginning outreach to state officials and planning to form a task force under its Strategic Planning Committee. The RTO scheduled a two-hour webinar to kick off the effort on Friday, Sept. 18. Lanny Nickell, SPP’s engineering vice president and point … Continue reading SPP Ramping Up for EPA Carbon Rule
August 17, 2015 By Tom Kleckner LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — While SPP says it is continuing to analyze the 1,500 pages in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, some stakeholders in the RTO’s 14-state footprint wasted no time taking action. In the first of several expected legal challenges, state attorneys general from half of … Continue reading SPP, MISO, PJM States Join Opposition to Clean Power Plan
City officials released 20,000 shade balls into the Los Angeles Reservoir Monday, the final step in a $34.5 million water quality protection project. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project involved the release of 96 million shade balls into the reservoir at the Van Norman Complex in Sylmar. Read the full article at … Continue reading Los Angeles dumps 96 million plastic balls into a reservoir
By John Hall | Bio | Published: August 4, 2015 For the past 25 years, I have had the opportunity to work on clean energy and clean air issues for Texas. Throughout this time, I have come to believe the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages about 90 percent of Texas’ grid, is … Continue reading Clean Power Plan Should be Met with Texas-Sized Innovation
Power Companies Seek to End Losing Streak on EPA at Top U.S. Court (Bloomberg) — Think the U.S. Supreme Court is pro-business? Try telling that to the utility industry. Coal-dependent power companies have taken a pounding at the high court over the last decade, most recently with two losses last year on Obama administration clean … Continue reading Power Companies Seek to End Losing Streak on EPA at Top U.S. Court
LAURA SHEEHAN | MARCH 3, 2015 The Washington Post profiled Sharon Garcia, a single mom from Pueblo, Colorado, last year who suffers from a state policy that shuttered coal plants in favor of costlier, less reliable fuel sources. Ms. Garcia and her family—emblematic of so many other U.S. families—are forced to live in darkness at … Continue reading EPA’s Clean Power Plan Threatens To Turn The Lights Out On America
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