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October 6, 2024

Public Policy

Austin Energy
ERCOT Briefs: Week of Jan. 30, 2023
Icy weather knocked more than 400,000 Texas customers offline last week, but all outages were at the local distribution level.
Energy Innovation
Report: IRA Makes Renewables Cheaper than Virtually All US Coal Plants
A new report found that nearly all coal plants studied “are more expensive to run than replacing their generation capacity with either new solar or wind.”
Cal Fire Shasta-Trinity Unit
PG&E Can be Tried Again for Manslaughter
A judge said there is enough evidence to try PG&E on four manslaughter counts and other charges from the September 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County, Calif.
Great River Energy
FERC Approves Incentives for Great River Energy’s MVP Lines
FERC approved Great River Energy’s request for transmission rate incentives for two MISO Multi-Value Projects it is working on.
New York state Governor's Office
NY Budget Plan Details Cap-and-invest Proposal
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul released a legislative framework for the cap-and-invest program she is proposing to help the state meet its GHG-reduction goals.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Senate ENR Committee Grills Turk on IIJA Implementation
A political war is looming over the interpretation and implementation of both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Constellation
NY DPS Decreases ZEC Prices by 14%
The price of New York ZECs is set to fall 14% for the next two years after the agency that administratively sets the price issued its biennial price adjustment.
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FERC Resolves NextEra-Avangrid Dispute over Seabrook Circuit Breaker
FERC settled a dispute between NextEra Energy and Avangrid over whether the former should be responsible for upgrading a circuit breaker at Seabrook.
House of Delegates Commerce and Energy Committee
Virginia Panel Clears Bills to Increase SCC Rate Authority
The Virginia House Commerce and Energy Committee voted to tighten regulation of electric utility rates as disparate interests lined up behind two bills.
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Washington Poised to Become Net Electricity Importer by 2050
The push for decarbonization will transform Washington from a key exporter of electricity to a net importer by mid-century, a state agency has found.

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