EPA’s rule said to favor repurposing and recycling – over landfills or disposal ponds.
As Mark Twain would say, the reports are exaggerated.
Many in business back EPA, but the new Congress has yet to weigh in.
Diversifying Utility Regulation: State regulators voice opinions as mixed as the nation’s geography.
Lessons learned for U.S. utilities – drawn from first-person fact-finding.
Xcel Energy notified Minnesota regulators and MISO of its intent to stop generating electricity with coal at its Black Dog plant in Burnsville in April 2015, due to changing environmental regulations. The notification is the last step in a multi-year resource planning process. Black Dog's two coal units currently generate 232 MW of electricity. The company will continue to operate the 300-MW natural gas unit located at the Black Dog site. The coal units' retirement will trigger a multi-year decommissioning project.
How recent events could prove a harbinger of winters to come.
Regulators and utilities should collaborate more to address cyber threats.
New England’s proposed capacity market reform would force generators to ‘Be There or Else.’
The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
"Given that we and other utilities are involved in planning to meet other pollution regulations, as well as soon adding new generation to meet growing demand, we need greater certainty regarding what these CO2 regs will require."