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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsU.S. electric utilities installed nearly 71 million advanced meters, accounting for about 47 percent of meters that were operational in 2016, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s annual report on demand response and advanced metering. The report, issued by commission staff on Nov. 7, found that several states are considering large-scale smart meter projects,…
DetailsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 7 reinstated a 2009 action clarifying “project aggregation” for the New Source Review permitting program that governs emission permits for building new or significantly retrofitted industrial facilities including power plants. Under the policy, the agency will combine multiple changes to a facility into a single project for permitting…
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