Tag: Clean Power Plan
San Antonio electric utility CPS Energy well positioned to comply with Clean Power Plan
CPS Energy charges residential rate of $.105/kwh, slightly under Texas average As Texas electric utilities prepare to comply with the Clean Power Plan, one company is ahead of the pack. CPS Energy says it began moving away from coal eight years ago and anticipates no difficulty complying with the tough new regulations. CEO Doyle Beneby […]
Clean Power Plan in Texas could generate benefits for natural gas producers
Clean Power Plan could produce over $2 billion/year increase in natural gas sales for Texas shale companies This will come as a shock to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other high profile critics, but the EPA’s Clean Power Plan actually represents both threats and opportunities. You can read some of what the critics have to […]
Clean Power Plan: Obama announces $1 billion of loan guarantees
Clean Power Plan supports distributed renewable energy projects, additional funding for solar power generation President Barack Obama today announced more than $1 billion to drive innovation and accelerate the clean energy economy, according to the Department of Energy. As part of the President’s Clean Power Plan, DOE’s Loan Programs Office is making up to one billion dollars in […]
National Clean Energy Summit: Obama throws support behind wind, solar power
National Clean Energy Summit in Vegas LAS VEGAS – President Barack Obama brought presidential star power to tout the benefits of solar electricity in Western states during an annual green power conference Monday in Las Vegas hosted by U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. The president used a keynote speech to the eighth National Clean Energy Summit at the […]
Obama backs clean energy choices for consumers
President pushes back against fossil fuel with clean energy choices WASHINGTON – Pushing back against fossil fuel interests, President Barack Obama is pressing to give ordinary Americans more power to choose what kind of power they use. The president, in a speech at a clean energy conference in Las Vegas on Monday night, planned to announce new […]
Texas blows up over the Clean Power Plan – Part 1
Clean Power Plan aims to eliminate Texas coal power plants, which generate 24% of state electricity We get it. Texas is really mad about Obama, the EPA, and the Clean Power Plan. But behind the bellicose rhetoric from Austin lies an interesting story about the plan’s potential benefits and pitfalls. In this three part series, […]
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Utilities switching away from coal to natural gas Alpha Natural Resources is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the fourth big coal producer to do so within the last two years. The company operates about 60 coal mines throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Wyoming. Coal prices have plunged in recent years as utilities […]
Hydropower – Northeast desperately needs energy, eco-activists try to block Canadian imports
New Englanders will pay a tops-in-the-nation 20.2 cents per kilowatt-hour in Q3 of this year. Canadian hydropower could lower rates. As President Obama prepares to close coal power plants across the country with the Clean Power Plan, New England environmentalists oppose importing more Canadian clean hydropower. Plenty of raw electricity sloshes around in Quebec’s rivers and reservoirs, […]
Clean Power Plan: Mandated carbon cuts to be steeper than expected
EPA will unveil Clean Power Plan Monday, year after President Obama proposed steep GHG cuts President Barack Obama and his Clean Power Plan will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday. The President called the Clean Power Plan the most significant step […]
Clean Power Plan: Texas think tank launches challenge with Interstate Power Compact
Will EPA’s Clean Power Plan be mired in legal wrangling if Interstate Power Compact is successful? A Texas think tank has launched an interesting end run around the Environmental Protection Agency that could hobble the Obama Administration’s key climate change strategy, the Clean Power Plan. The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Fueling Freedom Project announced this week […]
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