In a highly contentious docket pertaining to a natural gas local distribution company’s (LDC’s) petition for rate relief, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission ended up staying a recommended decision from an administrative law judge (ALJ) and then extending the time for party motions, rebuttals, exceptions, and responses.
The Kentucky Public Service Commission approved as modified a proffered stipulation pursuant to which an electric utility, Kentucky Power Company, may implement a base rate hike of $12.35 million. The final amount authorized stands in stark contrast to the $65.39 million in additional revenues originally sought by the company. It also marks a significant reduction from the rate terms negotiated by the settling parties, which provided for an increase of $19.45 million.
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Held at the Canadian Embassy, the aptly-named association for transmission development headed by former FERC Chair Jim Hoecker, WIRES, put on a show on spurring grid buildout. Among the speakers were Nina Plaushin of ITC, Tom Kuhn and Lawrence Jones of EEI, Sergio Marchi of the Canadian Electricity Association, and Clair Moeller of MISO.
Several speakers voiced strong support for the energy provisions (Chapter Six) of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, currently being negotiated by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. To modernize it, but certainly to maintain the Chapter.
Everybody was there when the United States Energy Association held its fourteenth annual State of the Energy Industry Forum on January 18 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Take a look. You'll spot American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard, American Public Power Association CEO Sue Kelly, Edison Electric Institute President Tom Kuhn, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson, Electric Power Supply Association CEO John Shelk, American Council on Renewable Energy CEO Greg Wetstone.