ERCOT Report Predicts Rise in Prices under EPA Power Plant Rule
Posted on Nov 18, 2014 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on ERCOT Report Predicts Rise in Prices under EPA Power Plant Rule
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) published a report analyzing certain potential effects of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which limits greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. Among other things, the report provides different estimates of the various increases in locational marginal prices based on different emissions...
New Copper Theft Law Passes in in Pennsylvania
Posted on Nov 11, 2014 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Reliability | Comments Off on New Copper Theft Law Passes in in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania recently passed a law imposing increased penalties for metal theft, including stronger penalties for repeat offenders. The new law establishes three types of misdemeanors for metal theft under $1000, based on the value of items stolen. If the value of the metal stolen exceeds $1000, the metal theft will constitute a third-degree felony. If an individual is convicted of...
USDA Announces Efficiency Funding for Two Coops
Posted on Oct 23, 2014 in Energy Savings Programs, Innovation/Efficiency, Legislative & Politics, Technology | Comments Off on USDA Announces Efficiency Funding for Two Coops
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Utilities Service will provide $10.5 million in loans from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program to Roanoke Electric Membership Corporation and North Arkansas Electric Cooperative. The funds will be used by members of the coops to invest in efficiency upgrades to their homes or businesses. Click here to read...
Midwest Coops Support Increased Regional Planning
Posted on Oct 20, 2014 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Project Development, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Midwest Coops Support Increased Regional Planning
Representatives from two large generation and transmission cooperatives, Minnesota’s Great River Energy and Indiana’s Hoosier Energy, urged state and federal leaders to engage in more coordination at the regional level at a recent conference sponsored by the Midwestern Governors Association. Coops suggested, among other things, that plans to comply with new Clean Air Act regulations...
California Passes Metal Theft Law
Posted on Oct 7, 2014 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics | Comments Off on California Passes Metal Theft Law
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a law requiring regional scrap dealers to subscribe to a regional theft alert system. Jessica Nelson, general manager of Golden State Power Cooperative, applauded the passage of this law as a positive step to stopping metal theft. Click here to read more.
South Dakota Coops Bury Transmission for Reliability
Posted on Oct 7, 2014 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Project Development, Reliability | Comments Off on South Dakota Coops Bury Transmission for Reliability
Five South Dakota coops are using federal and state disaster funds to bury hundreds of miles of transmission lines. The coops are focusing on reliability after a blizzard caused outages for thousands of customers in early October of last year. Click here for more.
Florida Supreme Court Declines Intervention in Utility Dispute
Posted on Oct 1, 2014 in Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Florida Supreme Court Declines Intervention in Utility Dispute
The Florida Supreme Court has decided not to take up the ongoing dispute between Lee County Electric Cooperative and the city of Cape Coral regarding the costs of moving utility lines and power poles due to a road project. To read more about this story, click here.
Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate Would Repeal Rural Renewable-Energy Mandate
Posted on Oct 1, 2014 in Legislative & Politics | Comments Off on Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate Would Repeal Rural Renewable-Energy Mandate
Bob Beauprez, the GOP nominee for Colorado governor, told an audience of members of the National Federation of Independent Business that he would sign a bill repealing Senate Bill 252 if he were to win November’s gubernatorial election. Senate Bill 252 doubled the amount of energy that rural electric cooperatives must generate from renewable sources by 2020, from 10 percent to 20...
Federal Court Sides with Coops over FERC’s Demand Response Request
Posted on Oct 1, 2014 in Legislative & Politics, Litigation, Rates, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Federal Court Sides with Coops over FERC’s Demand Response Request
A federal court rejected a request from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review its decision against a FERC demand response order. FERC’s Order 745 issued in 2011 required that demand response participants in organized markets be compensated at full retail market price when they refrained from using electricity. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association...
Basin Electric Receives Federal Approval for Major Transmission Line
Posted on Sep 16, 2014 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Permitting, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Basin Electric Receives Federal Approval for Major Transmission Line
Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) recently received federal approval for construction of a 200-mile transmission line in western North Dakota. The project, which will include 345 kV transmission lines, two new substations and modifications to three existing substations, will start at Basin Electric’s Antelope Valley Station and end in Tioga, North Dakota. Basin...
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