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From our colleague and FERC guru, Jason Johns:
MISO’s Proposed Market Coordination Service:
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today rejected the Midwest ISO’s proposed Market Coordination Service that would have given certain transmission owners access to the ISO energy and operating reserve markets without requiring those owners to hand over control of facilities…
Renewable energy supporters in Utah are cheering a recent order which will make renewable energy systems such as wind turbines and solar panels more cost effective for consumers.
On February 12, 2009, the Utah Public Service Commission issued an order revising the Rocky Mountain Power net metering policy. In the past customers who own renewable-energy…
Last year, we reported on Utah Public Service Commission decisions regarding the need for the Milford Wind Power Project to obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity. Ultimately, the Commission ruled that the Project’s 90-mile transmission line connecting the wind farm to a point of interconnection at the Intermountain Power Project generating station was not…
On February 6, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed an executive order creating the Great Lakes Wind Council, an advisory body within the Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth that will provide citizens with a public forum to begin to identify where, in the Great Lakes, wind energy systems may be prudently sited. Appointments…
From a bootleg copy of the tax provisions in the stimulus bill:
The grant in lieu of tax credits is in the bill. However, it is now Treasury rather than DOE that will issue the checks. The provision has also been changed to allow the grants to be issued even though the property is not…
Congressional leaders have just announced that they have reached an agreement on the details of a stimulus package. The details have yet to be announced, other than the total cost of the bill is estimated to be $789 billion. That amount is less than either the House or Senate bill.
We will post details as…
The National Grain and Feed Association reports that at the International Feed Expo in Atlanta on January 27, Dr. Daniel McChesney of the Food and Drug Administration spoke about studies the agency has reviewed concerning distillers’ grains, the main by-product of ethanol, and glycerin, the main by-product of biodiesel.
Continue Reading Is More Bad By-Product News Coming for Biofuels Producers?
The staff of the US Senate Energy Committee, chaired by Jeff Bingaman (D- New Mexico) has just released the draft of a proposed renewable portfolio standard. The draft RPS would require that, by 2020, at least 20% of the electricity sold to retail consumers be obtained from renewable sources, such as wind, solar, geothermal and…
On February 2, 2009, Huron Consulting Group released its independent assessment of the City of Los Angeles’ proposed Measure B, which would require the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to develop 400 megawatts of solar generation by 2014. In late 2008, the Los Angeles City Council approved a motion to place Measure B…
In the midst of an unprecedented amount of bad news surrounding the economy, the robust growth in employment in the wind and solar energy sectors has been receiving a lot of attention. Wind industry jobs have increased 70% over the past year, totaling 85,000 in 2008. These 85,000 jobs in the wind industry include some 13,000 manufacturing jobs, …
