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Montana s attorney general is one step closer to taking up NorthWestern Energy’s fight over Colstrip Power Plant repairs, following a Monday state House vote to nullify portions of the private
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Congress. The House and Senate are back in session this week. The House is set to consider the Paycheck Fairness Act this week (H.R. 7), which would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to promote equal pay for men and women performing the same job, and they will also consider the Senate’s amendment on the bill to extend the current moratorium on the Medicare sequester (H.R. 1868). Outside of the bills scheduled for floor action, Democrats will continue working on the FY22 appropriations process and President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package, which the House hopes to pass by July 4th.
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Colstrip Power Plant owner Avista Corp. is eyeing 300 megawatts of Montana wind power over the next seven years as it determines where its future energy will come from.
The Spokane-utility included Montana wind energy in its preferred strategy for resources, with 100 megawatts of the capacity coming online in 2023, plus an additional 100 in 2024, and another 100 megawatts of capacity in 2028.
Details were disclosed April 2 in the utilityâs 2021 Integrated Resource Plan, which gives regulators in Idaho and Washington a look at Avista scenarios for providing electricity to customers through 2025 and beyond.
Avista has a 222-megawatt share of the Colstrip Power Plant, evenly divided between Units 3 and 4. It faces a 2025 deadline to stop delivering coal power to its Washington customers under the terms of the stateâs Clean Energy Transformation Act. The climate law requires utilities to stop delivering coal power to Washington Customers by the end of
Grant PUD enters next-gen nuclear partnership
Last updated 4/7/2021 at 7:52am
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA 4th District) looks on from the podium as Energy Northwest CEO Brad Sawatzke, X-energy CEO Clay Sell and Grant PUD CEO Kevin Nordt sign the TRi Energy Partnership memorandum of understanding April 1 at the Port of Benton in Richland, Wash. - courtesy of Energy Northwest
Grant PUD announced last week that it would join in a partnership with two other entities to pursue building a nuclear power project.
The county-based utility that already operates two hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River will work with Energy Northwest and X-energy, in a TRi Energy Partnership, a mutual partnership to support the development and commercial demonstration of the country.