A task force with the New York Independent System Operator Inc. will continue to discuss a plan to incorporate the cost of carbon dioxide emissions from electric generators into the grid operator’s wholesale power market. The initiative comes as the state looks to cut the global warming pollutant 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and seeks to phase out coal plants by 2020.

The Florida Public Service Commission will consider Tampa Electric Company’s plan to slash its annual revenue requirement by about $103 million, to account for savings from the federal tax overhaul. The Trump administration passed the historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, lowering the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent. Tampa Electric is a subsidiary of TECO Energy Inc. (20180045-EI)

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Transportation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will discuss the state’s low-carbon transportation future. In the spring, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, announced the launch of Evolve NY, a $250-million initiative to expand the deployment of electric vehicle infrastructure, including support for Charge NY 2.0, a program that seeks to install 10,000 charging stations across the state by 2021. Electric vehicles play a vital role in reaching New York’s goal of cutting emissions as the transportation sector is among the largest sources of the global warming gases.

The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy is scheduled to receive comments on the state’s energy plan, which calls for doubling the 20 kilowatt residential net metering cap, boosting the overall net metering program cap from 1 percent of the utility’s peak load to 3 percent, developing the 113,000-acre Virginia Wind Energy Area and slashing the state’s energy consumption by 10 percent by 2020.

The California Independent System Operator Corp. will discuss an initiative to allow energy storage that’s paid for transmission services to also be eligible to sell into the energy and ancillary services markets. The proposal was revised in June following feedback from stakeholders and now includes more details on contractual arrangement between the grid operator and the resource owner, new cost recovery mechanisms and market participation rules. The grid manager’s move to allow energy storage to sell into multiple markets is the latest in its ongoing efforts to remove regulatory barriers for the emerging technology.

The Missouri Public Service Commission is scheduled to hear from the state’s electric utilities on a proposal to boost the size of the power purchase contracts that they must lock into with smaller, renewable energy producers as required under federal law. The state regulator seeks to understand the impact of boosting the size of the standard offer contracts from the currently mandated 100 kilowatts to 1 megawatt, 2.5 megawatts and 5 megawatts. (EW-2017-0245)