Colorado air quality regulators moved last week to order three coal-fired power plants to shut down two years earlier than the operators had planned. Operators of the plant aren’t happy about the move. Tri-State, Xcel and Platte River Power were hit with the orders as the state said the early closings have to be …
** Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo resigns days after the FBI searched his home as part of an investigation into the state’s power plant subsidy law bribery scandal reported Cleveland.com. ** Reuters reported that Enbridge says construction has started on a Pennsylvania solar project that will help power operations for a natural gas pipeline. ** The Trump administration is …
The nation’s banking regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is proposing rules to foil efforts of big banks to refuse lending to coal and oil and gas. The proposal came months after a letter was sent to President Trump by Oklahoma U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe, James Lankford and others complaining of …
While NextEra Energy is building Oklahoma’s first battery storage operation near Marlow, Alliant Energy’s battery storage facility in northern Iowa is expected to go on line yet this year. It’s under construction near Decorah, Iowa where the Decorah News reported Alliant wants to test whether the backup power supply batteries can handle excess electricity generated …
