The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is due to receive comments on Pennsylvania General Energy Co. LLC’s proposed natural gas pipeline in Lycoming County. The company has requested a siting permit for its proposed Phase IV Pipeline Project, which would involve the construction of approximately 19,925 linear feet of twelve-inch natural gas pipeline and 19,887 linear feet of two flexsteel waterlines.

The Maryland Public Service Commission will hold a hearing to discuss Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative’s application for adjustments of retail rates and charges applicable to electric services. The company seeks an increase in base revenues of $37.9 million, which would represent an 11 percent overall bill increase for the average customer. 9738

The New York Public Service Commission will hold public statement hearings on Consolidated Edison Company of New York’s climate change resilience plan. The company plans to invest about $903 million from 2025–2029, the first five-year period of its resilience plan. Capital expenditures for all resilience investments for the next 20 years – from 2025 through 2044 – total to about $5.6 billion. The company will implement programs that minimize outages from heat waves, snowstorms, sea level rise, and other extreme weather events and restore service faster when outages do occur. The commission has announced a series of hearings to discuss climate vulnerability and resiliency plans submitted by all utilities. 22-E-0222

The Michigan Public Service Commission seeks comments on a staff proposal that prescribes filing requirements for each rate-regulated electric utility’s transportation electrification plan. In March, the commission issued an order directing staff to submit a filing process as well as a proposed schedule for filings. The order also expanded the scope of the vehicle-to-grid and energy storage workgroup to incorporate tariff proposals for vehicle-to-grid and energy storage for all regulated electric utilities. The commission found it appropriate to expand the scope, with an opportunity to consider bidirectional charging implications for other entities like homes, namely, a vehicle-to-home tariff, and more broadly, V2X applications. READ MORE

The California Energy Commission is due to receive comments on developing applications for the second round of the U.S. Transportation Department’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure, or CFI, grant program. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act created the CFI program, providing $2.5 billion over five years to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure and other alternative fueling infrastructure projects in urban and rural communities in publicly accessible locations. California is developing two applications to the CFI program. The first application is a multi-state proposal to develop medium- and heavy-duty battery EV charging infrastructure along interstate corridors, and the second proposes a medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle infrastructure project along drayage routes near state ports. 24-EVI-01