FERC Sets Ginna Nuclear Facility Agreement for Hearing The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) continues to look askance at utility requests for guaranteed income streams for their generation resources. Most recently, R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, LLC (Ginna) received a lukewarm reception to its request to establish a rate schedule and guaranteed revenue … Continue reading FERC Sets #Ginna Nuclear Facility Agreement for Hearing→
Bloomberg terminals experience outage Bloomberg’s trading terminal experienced an outage on Friday morning, resulting in a treasury auction in the U.K. being postponed. The company confirmed to CNBC that its terminal was unavailable worldwide, with traders from the U.K. and Singapore complaining on Twitter that they had been affected by the issue. The interruption began … Continue reading #Bloomberg terminals experience #outage→
Nuclear power needs government subsidies, but struggles to make the case for them WADSWORTH – Visiting the South Texas Plant Nuclear Operating Co. reminded me of the years I’ve spent on military bases. The machinery was huge and intimidating, the workers were courteous and professional, and the undertaking was important and dangerous. That’s not surprising … Continue reading Nuclear power needs government subsidies, but struggles to make the case for them→
SOME GOVERNORS PUSH BACK OVER MCCONNELL LETTER TO DEFY EPA CONCORD, N.H. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s call for governors to defy proposed federal rules to limit pollution has been met with mostly silence, but leaders in downwind New England states and drought-stricken areas in the West are pushing back. The Kentucky Republican wrote … Continue reading SOME GOVERNORS PUSH BACK OVER MCCONNELL LETTER TO DEFY EPA→
Black Dog power plant moving off coal toward cleaner energy On April 8, the last shipment of coal was delivered to Xcel Energy’s Black Dog power plant in Burnsville, marking the end of the facility’s 60-year history of producing electricity from coal. Instead, once the coal units are replaced with a natural gas combustion turbine, … Continue reading #Black_Dog power plant moving off coal toward cleaner energy→
Global Respondents Say Electricity System Can be 70 Percent Renewable by 2050 In ‘Beyond Integration: Three dynamics reshaping renewables and the grid,’ a recent global industry research initiative, DNV GL gathered views from over 1600 energy sector participants across more than 70 countries. The study addressed key questions on how to best move forward the … Continue reading Global Respondents Say #Electricity System Can be 70 Percent Renewable by 2050→
Follow the big financiers: Solar and batteries are coming In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial institutions—including Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Fitch Ratings, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS—found that solar-plus-battery systems pose a real and present threat to traditional utility business models. Many of them directly cited RMI’s report The Economics … Continue reading Follow the big financiers: Solar and #batteries are coming→
Exelon (EXC) Unit to Reduce Electricity Distribution Rate Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”), a unit of Exelon Corporation (EXC – Analyst Report), filed its annual delivery service formula rate request for the distribution of electricity to the Illinois Commerce Commission (“ICC”). If approved by the concerned authority, residential consumers will be getting electricity at lower remunerations … Continue reading #Exelon (#EXC) Unit to Reduce Electricity Distribution Rate→
How CenterPoint’s Integrated Smart Grid Is Paying Off Back in 2009, Texas utility CenterPoint Energy landed a $200 million Department of Energy stimulus grant to carry out a $750 million smart grid project, one of the biggest in the country. It started with 2.3 million smart meters capable of detecting power outages and helping field … Continue reading How #CenterPoint ’s Integrated Smart Grid Is Paying Off→
Experts: Powering your home with batteries is going to get cheaper and cheaper In the past few weeks, there’s been a battery of new studies on batteries. Not the kind in your cellphone, but a much more revolutionary make – the kind that is already powering many cars, and that might someday help power your … Continue reading Experts: Powering your home with #batteries is going to get cheaper and cheaper→
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