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October 03, 2013 Federal Court Orders EPA to Move on Final Coal Ash Rule A federal court on Monday said it would issue a memorandum opinion by the end of this month on a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a final coal ash rule.… Read More »
Environmental Groups Call for National Rule on Once-Through Cooling Asserting that state regulators are unprepared, overworked, and unable to meet the requirements of a draft EPA rule on once-through cooling (OTC), a coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club, the National Resources Defense Council, and Waterkeeper issued a… Read More » IPCC Report Says Climate Change Is Real and Caused by Humans A report issued on Friday, Sept. 27 by a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) essentially confirms the conclusions drawn by previous reports that human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels, are largely responsible for… Read More » Miss. Power Again Delays Kemper IGCC Plant “Abnormally wet weather” and “lower-than-planned construction labor productivity” have forced Mississippi Power to again push back commercial startup of its integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) project in Kemper County, Miss., to later in 2014 from the originally scheduled in-service… Read More » Binz Withdraws From FERC Nomination In a letter to President Obama on Monday, former Colorado Public Utility Commissioner Ron Binz withdrew his name from further consideration as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). His nomination proved to be highly controversial and was met… Read More » Federal Court Blocks Maryland Order to Build New CCPP A federal court on Monday shot down Maryland’s drive to spur construction of a new combined cycle power plant outside of PJM’s capacity auctions. Ruling in favor of various entities that had sued to block the plan, the U.S. District… Read More » Nuclear Plant Shut Down Due to Jellyfish At noon on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, Oskarshamn Unit 3 (O3) was manually shut down due to a large amount of jellyfish present at the cooling water intake. Operations management chose to disconnect the facility from the grid as a… Read More » Germany’s National Election Sheds Little Light on Energiewende Future A federation of Germany’s biggest companies last week called for urgent reforms to the country’s renewable energy strategy within the first 100 days of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s newly elected government, including abolishing feed-in-tariffs (FITs) that they say have sent power… Read More »
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