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The PJM Interconnection is proposing to eliminate a controversial rule that effectively raises the price for state-subsidized resources, such as renewables and nuclear, bidding into its wholesale capacity market.
The grid operator on Wednesday laid out its proposal in an hours-long call with stakeholders, explaining that under its plan, the minimum offer price rule (MOPR) expanded through a 2019 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruling that attempted to combat price suppression in the capacity market would no longer apply to state-subsidized resources. Clean energy advocates praised the move as a win for state decarbonization goals.
PJM s proposal is in response to a series of FERC technical conferences focused on the future of wholesale power markets. Some competitive generators, including Calpine which led the initial complaint that prompted the expanded MOPR on Tuesday argued in comments before FERC that the ruling remained appropriate and should not be
Environmental News For The Week Ending 03 April 2019
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There hasn t been much change in the trajectory of either US Covid metric: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while US Covid deaths continue to fall. New cases of Covid confirmed over the week ending April 3rd were 5.9% higher that those confirmed over the week ending March 27th, and 15.9% higher than those of the week ending March 20th, while US Covid deaths during the week ending April 3rd were 12.2% lower than the prior week, and down 74.7% from the peak week in late January.
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Biden’s Big Infrastructure Plan Would Further Boost Renewable Energy Source: By Russell Gold, Wall Street Journal • Posted: Thursday, April 1, 2021
The president’s proposal to address climate change would extend wind and solar tax credits another decade, and create new incentives for transmission lines
Transmission lines have proven notoriously difficult to build amid opposition from landowners. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would supercharge an already booming clean-power sector by expanding subsidies and addressing key bottlenecks impeding the shift to a greener grid.
The plan, unveiled Wednesday, calls for the creation of a new tax credit to support the construction of high-voltage transmission lines, a major roadblock for the build-out of renewable energy.