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Archive of Energy on Tuesday November 03, 2009
MA: State presses wind projects
With more than a third of the major wind-energy projects in Massachusetts stalled by lawsuits or permit appeals, the Patrick administration has proposed a landmark bill that would streamline the state's appeals process and make it possible to win approval of such projects much more quickly. Read More
CA: Senate passes portions of state water reform
After weeks of negotiations, the state Senate started voting on a broad water package Monday night, passing three measures before adjourning shortly after midnight. Read More
AK: State plans AGIA update Tuesday
State officials will discuss progress being made on a natural gas pipeline. Read More
AZ: Kirkpatrick raises concerns about renewable energy's cost to rural Arizona residents
Concerns about the costs to rural Arizona contributed to U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick's vote against legislation dubbed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would require large utilities to obtain 6 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2012 and 20 percent by 2020, though companies can make up some of that total in energy efficiency. Read More
CA: Pay-by-the-mile auto insurance advances in California
Car insurance by the tankful? Not quite, but California moved a step closer last month to pay-as-you-drive policies that could allow motorists to buy insurance like they do gasoline – a little at a time. Read More
CO: Ritter -- $400 million in transportation funds around the corner
The FASTER transportation measure passed by lawmakers earlier this year could generate up to $180 million this year for Colorado roads and bridges, and about $220 million next year, Gov. Bill Ritter said Monday. Read More
CO: Public assistance programs worry about meeting season's heavy demands
Colorado public-assistance programs are predicting that they will be hard-pressed to handle this year's surging demand. Read More
FL: FPL ordered to speed up $365 million refund for customers
State regulators Monday directed Florida Power & Light to give utility customers a one-time refund of about $44 on their household electric bills in January for lower-than-expected fuel costs in 2009. Read More
FL: FSU drilling symposium experts say risk is low
Offshore drilling would pose relatively little risk to Florida's environment, according to academics and industry experts who participated Monday in a symposium sponsored by Florida State University. Read More
FL: Miami-Dade commissioners consider cashing in on old Glades jetport
Facing a half-billion-dollar shortfall, Miami-Dade aviation managers are pitching oil drilling and rock mining as options for squeezing money out of an Everglades jetport abandoned 35 years ago. Read More
HI: 3 in Hawaii win governor's innovation awards
Gov. Linda Lingle yesterday recognized three recipients of the Governor's Innovation Awards for their role in helping Hawai'i create an innovation-based economy and a stronger future for the state. Read More
MA: Wind turbine on line for base cleanup
CAMP EDWARDS Mass. — Rose Forbes, the woman who spearheaded a wind turbine project for the Air Force, said recently it made little sense for the base to clean up groundwater using energy that fouled the air through fossil-fuel emissions. Read More
MA: State OKs conservation pricing for gas company
The Department of Public Utilities formally approved a controversial new pricing system for Bay State Gas, in a move designed to encourage the utility to push for more energy conservation. The so-called "decoupling" rate plan is the first time that the system has been used in Massachusetts. Read More
MI: MPSC tells Consumers to cut increase, give refunds
Consumers Energy wanted to raise electric rates by $179 million a year and started charging about that amount in May. Read More
MI: Consumers Energy ordered to partially refund money
Consumers Energy has been ordered to give electric customers a partial refund six months after Michigan's second-biggest utility was allowed to increase power bills. Read More
MN: Utilities kill plans for Big Stone II power plant
Developers of the controversial Big Stone II power plant in Milbank, S.D., said Monday they will not build the $1.6 billion coal-fired project, ending a four-year battle between utilities and environmentalists over a significant portion of Minnesota's energy future. Read More
NH: Sierra Club seeks council chief's recusal
The acting chairman of a state council charged with hearing a case on Public Service of New Hampshire's Bow power plant is a former employee of the company. The state chapter of the Sierra Club, which is appealing a state permit issued for the plant, wants him disqualified from the case. Read More
SD: PUC to hold public hearing on Keystone XL
The Public Utilities Commission gets comments from the public Tuesday evening in Pierre on the $920 million, 313-mile stretch of the Keystone XL pipeline that TransCanada Keystone plans to build across western and south central South Dakota. Read More
SD: Developers abandon plan for SD power plant
Developers of a $1.6 billion electric power plant in northeastern South Dakota abandoned the project Monday, saying they were unable to recruit other investors after one of the principal utility backers pulled out. Read More
VT: Legislative leaders want study of energy markets
Vermont's legislative leaders want to launch a study of New England's energy markets. Read More
VT: Vermont Yankee misses deadline
A Nov. 1 deadline set by legislative leaders came and went, and still no deal between Vermont Yankee and the state's largest utilities on a post-2012 power contract. Read More
WI: Wis. PSC approves utility's biomass plan
Northern States Power Company-Wisconsin, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, said Monday that installing the biomass gasification technology in its third generator at Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland will make it the largest biomass plant in the Midwest-based on producing 60 megawatts of power from that fuel. Read More
WI: Wood-fueled power makes gain in state
Xcel Energy Corp. has won state approval for a project that would replace a coal-fired boiler in Ashland on Lake Superior with a biomass gasifier power plant. Read More
Sanyo Electric opens new solar panel plant in Salem
The state invests nearly $45 million in government tax breaks and grants in the company's unique and costly technology to bring green jobs to Oregon. Read More |
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