The New York Public Service Commission will discuss Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation’s application for adjustments of retail rates and charges applicable to its electric and gas service. The Fortis Inc. subsidiary filed a three-year rate plan starting from July 2021, seeking a decrease in electric delivery revenues of $3.1 million in the first year, and increases of $19.5 million and $20.7 million in the second and third years, respectively. The company proposes to increase its gas delivery revenues by about $4.7 million, $6.3 million, and $6.4 million in the respective years. The proposal contains certain provisions intended to address financial impacts to customers stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, including expanded access to the Energy Affordability Program, which provides bill discounts to eligible low-income customers, and a $4.55 million customer bill moderation credit. Further, the company proposes to continue a program to assist small businesses during the pandemic and pause its performance metric related to terminations and uncollectibles for residential customers. 20-E-0428, 20-01811

The Virginia State Corporation Commission will consider Appalachian Power Company’s proposed rate adjustment clause to recover incremental costs associated with participation in the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard program. The 2020 Clean Economy Act replaced the state’s voluntary RPS with a mandatory program, setting Virginia on the path to clean energy by 2050. The American Electric Power Company subsidiary proposes a revenue requirement of $7.1 million to be recovered from March 2022 through February 2023, and requests that the prior rate schedule pertaining to the voluntary RPS be discontinued. The law requires Dominion Energy Inc. and Appalachian Power to scale up their proportion of renewable energy to achieve carbon-free power by 2045 and 2050, respectively. PUR-2021-00048

The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority is scheduled to receive comments on the updated procurement price cap and bid preferences associated with Year 3 of the Statewide Shared Clean Energy Facility, or SCEF, program. Under the program, electric distribution companies purchase their subscribed energy produced by a selected SCEF facility at a price approved by the agency, and allocate the value of that purchase as on-bill credits to SCEF subscribers on a monthly basis. The initiative promotes equitable participation by expanding access to clean energy for low- to moderate-income customers and optimizes the re-use of sites with limited alternative uses. 21-08-04

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is due to receive comments on the universal service and energy conservation plan, or USECP, filed by Metropolitan Edison Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company, Pennsylvania Power Company, and West Penn Power Company. The FirstEnergy utilities filed a joint plan in February 2020 with revisions consistent with a commission order issued in November 2019 and a subsequent order on reconsideration. The 2019 order extended the duration of USCEP’s from three years to at least five years and directed natural gas and electric distribution companies to provide updated enrolment and budget projections associated with the additional years of their plans. FirstEnergy’s USECP was extended through 2023, requiring the company to file data for 2022 and 2023. The joint plan reflects the extended duration through 2023 and updated projections for 2022 and 2023, as well as changes consistent with the commission’s revised Customer Assistance Program policy amendments. P-2020-3018884

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission is due to receive comments on PacifiCorp’s 2021 integrated resource plan, which identifies the optimal mix of resources to serve customers over a 20-year planning horizon. The plan includes accelerated coal retirements, no new fossil-fired generation, conversion of coal units to gas peakers, incremental renewable energy investments, growth in energy efficiency and demand response programs, and addition of energy storage and advanced nuclear. This is PacifiCorp’s first IRP to include new advanced nuclear and non-emitting peaking resources as part of its least-cost, least-risk preferred portfolio, proposing to add 1,000 megawatts of advanced nuclear resources and 1,226 megawatts of non-emitting peaking resources through 2040. Over the planning period, the preferred portfolio includes 3,628 megawatts of new wind and 5,628 megawatts of new solar co-located with storage. The portfolio also includes additional transmission investment to facilitate the delivery of new renewable energy across the West. UE-200420

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will consider Dodge County Wind LLC’s application for a site permit, a certificate of need, and a route permit to build an up to 259-megawatt wind project in Dodge, Mower, and Steele Counties. The NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary proposes to construct the project over an area of approximately 28,348 acres with up to 79 turbines at an estimated cost of $300 million to $400 million. Dodge County Wind has entered into a power purchase agreement with Great River Energy for the full output of the project for a 30-year term. CN-20-865