Clean Power Puzzle: April 2016 crossword puzzle answers

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Spoiler alert! Answers to this month’s crossword puzzle, Clean Power Puzzle, on page 27 in April 2016's Public Utilities Fortnightly.

Today in Fortnightly

Across

1. reliable critic: nerc

2. more with building block four: efficiency

6. assessment: ea

7. incentive program: ceip

8. more with building block three: renewables

10. skeptical judges: supreme

14. more with building block two: gas

15. not changing the ___: climate

18. first letter of CPP: ce

20. it’s up to each ___: state

21. EPA’s favorite word selling CPP: flexibility

23. state target: goal

24. ___ coal generation to gas: shift

25. MATS case lead plaintiff: michigan

27. war on ___: coal

28. not mass-based: rate

29. path to 2030: glide

30. state standards: rps

31. best diet system: bser 

33. where to read CPP: cfr

34. ___ cost of carbon: social

35. efficient gas-fired plant: ngcc

36. skeptical commissioners: ferc

37. continuous stack meter: cems

 

Down

1. baseload that gets no respect: nuclear

3. state takes a pass: fip

4. 111(b): new

5. 1970 act: caa

9. environmental ___: justice

11. McCarthy’s agency: epa

12. regulated plant: egu

13. one ___ (d): eleven

16. Supremes said: stay

17. head start action: early

19. not new plants: existing

21. disliked fuels: fossil

22. plants that get hot: thermal

25. not rate-based: mass

26. lower with building block one: heat

27. emissions hurt planet: carbon

31. four for building, but now three: block

32. cap & trade in northeast: rggi

33. combined ___: cycle

37. like fric & frac, ___ & trade: cap

 

Each month’s issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly now has a crossword puzzle. The April 2016's was called Clean Power Puzzle, with the answers above. 

May 2016's puzzle will be called Utilities’ Name Game. June 2016's puzzle will be called Puzzling Rate Design. March 2016's puzzle was called FERC Fun.

Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly
E-mail me: mitnick@fortnightly.com