The Kansas State Corporation Commission on Dec. 6 extended the date for Clean Line Energy Partners LLC to begin construction of its multi-state Grain Belt Express transmission line to Dec. 2, 2019 to allow the agency to rule on Invenergy Transmission LLC’s anticipated application to buy the project. The commission granted a siting permit on Nov.…
DetailsThe Bureau of Land Management’s quarterly oil and gas lease sale in Utah generated net proceeds of $3.04 million drawing bids for 96 of 105 parcels offered, according to a Dec. 12 press release. The sale excluded 116 parcels following a court ruling in September by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho…
DetailsAvista Corporation and Hydro One Limited on Dec. 7 filed a brief with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission explaining that their proposed merger is not affected by a 1951 code that bars certain governmental agencies and entities not regulated by the commission from acquiring electricity generation assets in Idaho. The brief comes in response to…
DetailsThe U.S. Energy Department will partner with the University of Kentucky to explore breakthrough energy storage technologies in the second phase of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, the agency’s innovation hub dedicated to battery science. Established in 2012, the mission of the hub is to create next-generation technologies that can transform the transportation…
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