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The $100 Billion Question for the EPA
While EPA analyzes the impact of each rule individually, plant owners must consider the whole picture
By Ron Gallagher • May 31, 2012 -
Marin Energy Authority Says Rates Are Coming Closer to PG&E's
The one-county authority attributes the drop in its prices to a state decision reducing a fee that its customers must pay to PG&E.
By Ron Gallagher • May 30, 2012 -
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TrendlineData Centers and the US Grid
A look at how data centers are affecting the U.S. grid today and how new technologies and rate structures could affect that trajectory in the years to come.
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Senate Confirms Two FERC Nominees, Head of EIA
John Norris will begin a full term this summer, and North Dakota's Tony Clark will join FERC.
By Ron Gallagher • May 30, 2012 -
California utilities net big DR budgets
Regulators say the companies need to keep up efforts to make demand response a habit.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
ERCOT's electric reserve on shaky ground
The reliability council predicts a shrinking margin of capacity over demand every year and a shortfall by 2022.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
NRC Finds Pilgrim Plant Safe; Renewal Preserves 650 Jobs
The Massachusetts facility's renewal process has gone on since 2006, the longet renewal on record.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
U.S. fish plan for Columbia River includes hydro power management
Wildlife management on the Columbia account for about 30% of the wholesale power costs of the Bonneville Power Administration.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
FERC Defers Air-Rule Role to EPA
Utilities that need more time to comply with mercury and toxics standards are being told to take their issues directly to the environmental agency.
By Ron Gallagher • May 25, 2012 -
Obama picks an academic to be new NRC chair
George Mason University professor Allison M. Macfarlane served on a blue-ribbon panel charged with recommending steps to deal with nuclear-waste disposal.
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012 -
Win for California solar: CPUC keeps net energy metering alive
A utilities commission decision on how to define a cap on the program is seen as favoring solar advocates over investor-owned utilities.
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012 -
Calif. PUC says its greenhouse-gas control legislation can be a model nationally
The state is implementing a cap-and-trade system at the start of 2013.
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012 -
Jaczko says Summer, Vogtle builders are meeting NRC requests
The outgoing chairman of the NRC says the NRC found construction problems, and the nuclear units' licensees are handling them "in the right way."
By Ron Gallagher • May 24, 2012 -
Iowa, Oregon governors take the helm of states' wind-energy group
The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition is dedicated to developing the nation’s wind energy resources.
By Ron Gallagher • May 22, 2012 -
WSJ: Time for government to give utilities a hand on cybersecurity
The Democratic co-sponsor of legislation in the House says administration objections blind-sided him.
By Ron Gallagher • May 22, 2012 -
NRC head Jaczko resigns
He said he wants to work on safety in other ways. News reports suggest his management style and his being an industry outsider contributed.
By Ron Gallagher • May 21, 2012 -
Electricity storage can take advantage of daily price variations
Pumped hydro dominates, with compressed air, flow batteries and thermal storage behind.
By Ron Gallagher • May 21, 2012 -
FERC Forecasts Low Gas Prices, Power Problems in Calif., Texas, Boston
The agency staff's summer assessment assumes natural gas surpluses and accompanying prices below $2 to $2.50 per MMBtu.
By Ron Gallagher • May 18, 2012 -
Calif. Indian Tribe Says Wind Farm Must Yield to Sacred Land Issue
The Quechan tribe says the ocotillo project could disturb sacred cremation grounds.
By Ron Gallagher • May 18, 2012 -
FERC Action on Order 1000 Angers Coalition for Fair Transmission Policy
The seven-company group argues that consumers are not adquately protected.
By Ron Gallagher • May 18, 2012 -
KPMG Survey: U.S. May Never Attain Energy Independence
When asked, more than two-thirds said independence just is not feasible before 2030 at the earliest.
By Ron Gallagher • May 18, 2012 -
Westinghouse, Ameren Ally to License, Deploy Small Modular Reactors
They stress the importance of advancing nuclear energy in helping develop the Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor.
By Ron Gallagher • May 17, 2012 -
National Scam: Utility Customers Told Obama Will Pay Bills
San Diego Gas & Electric, Pacific Gas & Electric and Entergy are among the companies warning their customers not to give out personal information.
By Ron Gallagher • May 17, 2012 -
Navigating by the Sun
The U.S. Department of Defense is taking an aggressive lead as an early adopter of solar energy.
By Ron Gallagher • May 16, 2012 -
Taylorville Energy Center Plan Could Save Ill. Ratepayers $437.7 Million After Completion
Looking long-term, the Taylorville project power could reduce Illinois auction prices after completion in 2014.
By Ron Gallagher • May 16, 2012 -
300-Mile Atlantic-to-Shore Wind Power Line Gets First OK
The audacious Atlantic Wind Connection will get environmental reviews after the U.S. rules there is no competing proposal.
By Ron Gallagher • May 15, 2012
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