The biggest impact of the Supreme Court’s June 29 decision on the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule might not be on the MATS regulations that were under consideration but from the legal process the court’s decision sets in motion and the blowback from that process on the Obama Administration’s…
The California is debating raising its renewable energy target to 50% by 2030 from its current 33% by 2020 target, but the state is almost at that mark on an operational basis. Electricity generated by large hydroelectric projects do not count toward the state’s renewable portfolio standard, but from an…
Everyone is trying to read the tea leaves on whether or not the Supreme Court will uphold the Environmental Protection Agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule, but like the horse that is already in the field, those emissions have already left the stack. MATS, which is set to go…
The Energy Information Agency’s recently released numbers on new generation additions for 2014 illustrate a worrisome trend for electric utilities. Solar power continues to make inroads into the nation’s generation base. Solar power is still relatively miniscule with only about 10,000 megawatts of the overall 1 million megawatts of installed…