The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 8 released final state plan requirements to implement its 2015 standards for ground-level ozone. The rule applies to nonattainment areas and 13 northeastern states that comprise the ozone transport region. The rule allows flexibilities for states to consider factors outside their control, such as international pollution. The EPA…
PJM Interconnection LLC’s wholesale power markets work although “not perfectly,” and are faced with new challenges that potentially threaten their viability, according to Nov. 8 report from Monitoring Analytics LLC. The monitor questioned the ability of markets and the market-based regulatory construct to coexist with efforts to increase the role of renewable resources via nonmarket…
NorthWestern Energy plans to participate in the Energy Imbalance Market operated by the California Independent System Operator Corporation by April 2021, according to a Nov. 8 press release. The market is an automated system that secures the lowest-cost energy to serve real-time customer demand over a broad region spanning across multiple western states. The company…
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued a final policy clarifying that third-party electric vehicle charging is not considered resale or redistribution of power, in a bid to remove regulatory uncertainty and support the continued build-out of charging infrastructure, according to a Nov. 8 press release. The commission directed electric distribution companies to revise tariffs to…
Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, issued a solicitation for 800 megawatts or more of offshore wind for the state’s large-scale contracts towards meeting the goal of 2,400 megawatts by 2030, according to a Nov. 8 announcement by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. The goal supports the state’s Clean Energy Standard which…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana on Nov. 8 halted construction of TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, vacating the 2017 decision that issued a presidential permit for the project. The court said that that the U.S. State Department did not take a “hard look” at the environmental impacts of the…