New Jersey state Assembly member Harold Wirths, a Republican, introduced legislation on Oct. 15 that would require the board of public utilities to establish mechanisms for electric suppliers and utilities to procure energy storage as part of their distribution and transmission system planning process. The legislation would require the board adopt rules and regulations that…
Commonwealth Edison Company proposed that residential and commercial monthly bills display the “price to compare” for accounts of 15,000 kilowatt-hour or less of annual usage, according to an Oct. 15 filing. In July, the commission asked regulated utilities to clearly display the message so that customers can easily find and understand their current electric cost…
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority proposed to update rules that require licensed electric suppliers to provide timely and accurate information to distribution companies for inclusion on residential customer bills, according to an Oct. 15 draft decision. The proposed update would require distribution companies to reject enrollments that lack supply summary information and place them…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff issued a draft environmental assessment for NextDecade Corporation’s Rio Grande LNG Project finding that the project would result in some adverse environmental impacts, which would be reduced to less than significant levels, according to the agency’s Oct. 12 announcement. The staff said it has developed other site-specific mitigation measures…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission set a Dec. 18 deadline to issue an environmental assessment for the Cheyenne Connector Pipeline and Cheyenne Hub Enhancement projects in Colorado, according to the agency’s Oct. 11 notice. The pipeline, proposed by Cheyenne Connector LLC, comprises a 70-mile interstate line to move about 600 million cubic feet per day…
Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced the funding to advance progress towards the state’s ambitious target of deploying of 1,500-megawatts of energy storage by 2025 and also support the Clean Energy Standard, which requires half of the state’s electricity to come from renewable energy by 2030. The NY-Sun program, a $1 billion initiative that strives…
The California Public Utilities Commission on Oct. 11 approved a proposal that revises the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment, a fee intended to equalize cost sharing between customers who switch to community choice aggregation or CCA and those to continue to take service from electric utilities. The adjustment is an exit fee charged by the state’s…
Monarch Wind Holdings LLC asked the Texas Public Utilities Commission to authorize the transfer of its Class B or non-controlling membership interests in Javelina Wind Energy II LLC to Global Energy and Power Infrastructure Fund II L.P., according to the agency’s Oct. 11 notice. Javelina owns a 200-megawatt wind generation facility in Webb County interconnected…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. signed an agreement with Southern Company’s subsidiary Southern Power for its 200 megawatt Reading wind facility in a bid to offset up to 12 percent of the cruise operator’s emissions, according to an October 11 press release. The project, located in eastern Kansas, was originally developed by Renewable Energy Systems Ltd.…
The North Dakota Public Service Commission is reviewing an application by Emmons-Logan Wind LLC, an indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, to build a 298.1 megawatt wind project in the southern part of the state, according to an Oct. 10 notice. An application was filled on July 19 for the 123 wind turbine generators and…
Denmark-based Ørsted A/S will buy Deepwater Wind LLC, which owns the first U.S. offshore wind farm, the 30-megawatt Block Island farm off the Rhode Island coast, according to the company’s Oct. 10 press release. Ørsted entered into an agreement with U.S.-based D.E. Shaw Group to buy a 100 percent stake in Deepwater Wind, resulting in…
The West Virginia Public Service Commission announced that customers will benefit from a decrease in the purchased gas portion of natural gas utilities’ rates, according to an Oct. 9 press release. The annual adjustment is an estimate of the prices utilities would pay for gas from November through October of the following year and a…
