Under some scenarios, a new Trump administration proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants could curtail the construction of new natural gas combined-cycle power plants by as much as 30% and increase the use of existing coal plants by 13%, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own regulatory impact analysis on its proposal, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.
The cross-border Keystone XL pipeline was hit with another setback on Aug. 15 when a U.S. District Court judge in Montana ordered the U.S. State Dept. to perform a supplemental environmental impact statement on a new route through Nebraska.
Dominion Energy Transmission can continue work on certain portions of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, despite a court order halting construction on the 600-mile project, according to an Aug. 14 decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
With surging crude oil production in the Permian Basin reaching the limits of the pipeline system, pipeline companies are working to build new capacity to avoid bottlenecks that could restrict exports out of the area.
Plans to build an 800-MW offshore wind farm off the Massachusetts coast near Martha’s Vineyard advanced on Aug. 1 when developer Vineyard Wind announced power contract deals with three major state utilities that set a levelized price of 6.5¢ per kW/hr.
After a management crisis in early July, operations at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority have settled down following the appointment of electrical engineer José F. Ortiz as the utility’s new executive director and chief operating officer.