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FERC Finally Empowers Environmental Justice Advocates and Public Health Experts Feb 16, 2021 FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency) wields tremendous power in the environmental justice area, due to its leading role in approving interstate pipelines and transmission lines for gas, oil, and electricity. All too often that power has been shunted aside, but the agency finally appears ready to flex its justice muscles at the onset of the Biden administration. FERC asleep at the wheel on environ...

With millions of Americans struggling to pay utility bills, energy companies are facing a looming revenue crisis

Although Biden is pro-nuclear, there’s a chance that the new Nuclear Regulatory Commission might get out of bed with the nuclear lobby. NRC has been too deferential to a nuclear industry eager to reduce the cost of operating nuclear plants while keeping aging plants online. Nuclear has another friend in Biden, but changes at the NRC could mean more scrutiny ahead, Utility Dive . 1 Feb 21,  Matthew Bandyk Nuclear power is in a period of transformation, and so is the U.S. Nuclear Regulato...

Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Xcel Energys year-end 2020 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Questions will be taken from institutional investors. Reporters can contact media relations with inquiries and individual investors and others can reach out to Investor Relations. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Paul Johnson, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Paul Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations Good morn...

Share it Editor’s note: This story is part of the Utility Dive Outlook on 2021, a series on the trends that will shape the industry in 2021. For a look at the business trends affecting other industries, see the Dive Outlook on 2021. At this time last year, few people — if anyone — could have predicted what 2020 would bring. That tumultuous year has not yet led to a calmer one, but if January 2020 taught us anything, its that the first days of a new year may not always be a sign of whats ...

Share it Utilities ability to protect reliability in todays rapid transition to variable, distributed generation faces two key barriers and regulators help is needed to overcome them. Advanced demand response (DR) can use the flexibility of customer-owned technologies to meet the balancing challenges of the changing supply mix, regulators and utility executives agreed during an Oct. 20 symposium hosted by The Brattle Group. Utility pilots are revealing what works, but also showing how techn...

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Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Summary: New US Covid cases...

Dive Brief: The Public Advocates Office of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is asking regulators to fine Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) $124 million — on top of a $255 million penalty recommended last month — for allegedly violating a decision that barred the utility from advocating for energy efficiency building codes and appliance standards. SoCalGas also faces allegations from the Sierra Club for using ratepayer funding to push for shareholder interests as part of ...