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Great Plains Energy subsidiary proposes 7.5% rate increase for Missouri customers
Missouri regulators are still debating a proposal from its parent company, Great Plains Energy, to take over Kansas utility Westar Energy.
By Robert Walton • July 7, 2016 -
Indiana regulators approve Duke's $1.4B grid modernization plan
Regulators denied the utility's initial application last year, instructing Duke to provide more details and focus on electric grid projects.
By Robert Walton • July 6, 2016 -
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TrendlineTop 5 Stories from Utility Dive
The U.S. energy transition is facing challenges around grid interconnections, project permitting and power system reliability, but state, federal and other solutions are emerging.
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Deep Dive
California dreaming: Utilities uneasy with regulator's vision to remake their business model
Commissioner Florio wants a fundamental rethinking of utility revenues and distributed resources, but his proposal has critics on all sides.
By Peter Maloney • July 6, 2016 -
Deep Dive
Inside the first municipal solar-plus-storage project in the US
The Village of Minster tackled a solar-plus-storage project to diversify its portfolio and now looks to build a microgrid to protect its key C&I customers from power outages.
By Herman K. Trabish • July 5, 2016 -
Deep Dive
Five years in, Boulder's municipalization fight could be drawing to a close
Boulder is in negotiations with Xcel Energy on clean energy options that could end its bid to create a municipal utility. But the city hasn't given up yet.
By Robert Walton • July 5, 2016 -
NextEra decision looming, Hawaii lawmakers consider suing Gov. Ige over PUC appointment
The governor appointed a commission lawyer to the regulatory post without legislative approval ahead of a decision on the largest business deal in Hawaii history.
By Peter Maloney • July 5, 2016 -
California power regulation market doubled to 800 MW a day in first quarter
Total payments for power regulation services quadrupled to $400,000 per day in the first three months of 2016.
By Peter Maloney • July 1, 2016 -
Despite PSC opposition, Missouri governor throws support behind Grain Belt Express project
Clean Line Energy Partners' proposed transmission line would mean a $500 million investment in Missouri, according to Gov. Jay Nixon.
By Robert Walton • July 1, 2016 -
Maryland, Delaware governors say PJM transmission project hurts ratepayers in both states
PJM Interconnection's Artificial Island transmission project would construct an underwater cable between nuclear plants in New Jersey's Artificial Island area under the Delaware River in an effort to boost reliability.
By Robert Walton • July 1, 2016 -
Virginia Gov. McAuliffe issues executive order to cut GHG emissions
The governor directed state agencies to find a way to cut emissions from the power sector that does not need approval from the Republican-controlled General Assembly.
By Peter Maloney • June 30, 2016 -
Deep Dive
After Diablo Canyon: PG&E CEO Tony Earley on renewables, DERs and California's energy future
The same resources pushing the giant nuclear plant offline will be key to the utility's future in a low carbon economy.
By Gavin Bade • June 30, 2016 -
Seeking more renewables, Kit Carson Co-op exits relationship with Tri-State G&T
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative has exited its relationship with Tri-State Generation & Transmission and will buy renewable power from a private company instead.
By Peter Maloney • June 29, 2016 -
FERC upholds right of cooperatives to buy from independent generators
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has upheld the right of cooperatives to buy power under PURPA.
By Peter Maloney • June 27, 2016 -
Deep Dive
3 transmission projects that illustrate the importance in modernizing the grid
Big power line expansions in ERCOT, SPP and MISO are helping shape a cleaner energy system, but building them was a slog.
By Herman K. Trabish • June 24, 2016 -
Deep Dive
How storage can help solve the distributed energy 'death spiral'
A new Navigant paper lays out three examples of how storage can facilitate the transition to a more distributed grid.
By Herman K. Trabish • June 21, 2016 -
Morgan Stanley: Australian utilities underestimate disruptive power of solar+storage
With electricity prices rising, storage costs falling and solar incentives phasing out, the stage could be set for significant load defection in Australia as consumers increasingly deploy their own batteries and PV.
By Peter Maloney • June 21, 2016 -
New York finishes transmission project to access 440 MW of capacity
The project involved installation of three capacitor banks, and will help move renewable energy from upstate New York to downstate demand centers.
By Robert Walton • June 17, 2016 -
Opinion
California local renewables are getting robbed, but CAISO can help
Over 40 stakeholder organizations have been urging CAISO to eliminate transmission charges on local generation, which does not use transmission lines, writes Clean Coalition's Craig Lewis.
By Craig Lewis • June 16, 2016 -
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Deep DivePepco merger done, Exelon CEO Chris Crane wants market reforms to save nuclear fleet
The first six months of Exelon’s year saw it become the largest utility in the country, but also announce the early closure of two nuclear plants.
By Gavin Bade • June 16, 2016 -
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EIA: Efficiency will slow electricity sales growth through 2040
By 2040, the average household will be purchasing 11.3% less electricity than they do today.
By Robert Walton • June 15, 2016 -
Deep Dive
'Should have started yesterday': Why better transmission planning is urgently necessary for tomorrow's grid
The power mix is changing fast and it will cost ratepayers if transmission planners don’t catch up quickly, according to a new report from the Brattle Group.
By Herman K. Trabish • June 15, 2016 -
FERC revokes market-based rate authority for Berkshire Hathaway companies
Twenty Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidaries in four balancing authority areas out West failed to rebut presumptions of horizontal market power.
By Peter Maloney • June 14, 2016 -
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Deep DiveThe Rural Utilities Service: How the USDA is building a clean energy future for rural America
The USDA's RUS has backed rural communities since the 1930s and now has billions to dole out for renewables and efficiency projects for underserved populations.
By Herman K. Trabish • June 10, 2016 -
Maine PUC staff: Electric ratepayers should not pay for natural gas pipeline expansion
The report comes in the wake of a 2013 law that allowed regulators to authorize electric utilities to rate base investments in gas transport.
By Gavin Bade • June 10, 2016 -
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Deep DiveLittle less talk: With new revenue models, New York starts to put REV into action
The reforms to utility revenues in the Empire State could set the course for a new model of 21st century power providers.
By Gavin Bade • June 9, 2016
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