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California Carbon Capture Project Meets Its End

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Jessica Bell

EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for new power plants finalized a standard based on highly efficient supercritical pulverized coal with partial carbon capture and storage (CCS), a change from the proposed standard based on integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) with partial … Continue reading →

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DOE to Host Tribal Renewable Energy Webinar

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Jeff Bayne

On March 30, 2016, the Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs will host a webinar from 1:00-2:30 P.M. EST entitled “Tribal Renewable Energy Webinar: Transmission and Grid Basics for Tribal Economic and Energy Development.” The webinar … Continue reading →

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MISO Analyzes Impacts to Coal, Renewables Resulting from Emissions Reductions

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Amber Martin

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) predicts that efforts to reduce utility-sector emissions will result in major coal retirements in the future and the need for significant changes in renewable development, regardless of the fate of the CPP in the … Continue reading →

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Twenty States Ask the Supreme Court to Vacate the MATS Rule

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Anjali Patel

Last week, twenty states filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, Docket No. 15-1152, asking the Supreme Court to reverse the D.C. Circuit’s decision to remand the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) without vacating the rule.  The petitioners … Continue reading →

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States Tackle Net Metering

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Jeff Bayne

On the topic of grid modernization, perhaps no issue is as active, or as contentious, as net metering.  In general, net metering allows retail customers who generate their own energy (typically residents with rooftop solar panels) to be compensated for … Continue reading →

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