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Generate Your Own Electricity, Group Solar Purchase!

Submitted by Anonymous on May 31, 2013 - 3:54pm

Are you ready to generate some or all of the electricity you need right at home? 

Are you ready to go solar, but not sure where to start? 

Are you ready to tap that untapped local energy resource – the SUN?

Then signup to participate in our PV solar group bulk purchase and install project. 

Grounded Providing Excellent Coverage of Harrison Scheme Cross-Examination Testimony

Submitted by Anonymous on May 31, 2013 - 9:50am

I have been busy with my first cutting of hay for the last few days, so I haven’t been able to cover the final hearing on FirstEnergy’s Harrison scheme.  Pam Kasey has been doing a great job over at Grounded.  She featured the highlights of the first day of cross-examination of company witnesses here and the second day here.

WV PSC Chairman Attacks Citizens AND Efficiency, Just Like FirstEnergy Does

Submitted by Anonymous on May 30, 2013 - 10:36am

It seems that WV PSC Chairman’s comments were even worse than Ken Ward reported in his Charleston Gazette story.  Here is the direct quote reported on Grounded this morning:

“There was an awful lot of testimony (this morning, in the public portion), everybody said we can save the world by energy efficiency and demand response.”

WV PSC Chairman Albert Is Chairman of PSC, Not WV Citizens

Submitted by Anonymous on May 30, 2013 - 8:01am

WV PSC Chairman Mike Albert has done it again.  This time, he presented an opinion from “the bench” at the beginning of the three day hearing on FirstEnergy’s Harrison scheme.  As the Commissioners often remind us in their orders, they are a quasi-judicial body.  Apparently, Chairman Albert takes that “quasi” very seriously.

Why Master Limited Partnerships are a Lousy Policy for Solar, Wind, and Taxpayers

Submitted by Anonymous on May 30, 2013 - 6:04am

Read reactions to this piece here

If you follow the renewable energy industry and haven’t been sleeping, then you’ve probably heard about one of the few pieces of federal legislation purported to help clean energy that’s actually moving: expanding Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to cover wind and solar energy. (H.R.1696)

This is not a good thing.

Transmission Developers Must “Buy the Farm” in Minnesota

Submitted by Anonymous on May 29, 2013 - 9:33pm

Carol Overland reports that the MN Supreme Court ruled today that a state law is constitutional that allows land owners to force transmission developers to buy their entire property in condemnation cases, instead of just purchasing a right of way.

Minnesota’s New (Standard Offer) Solar Energy Standard

Submitted by Anonymous on May 28, 2013 - 10:37am

A friend at Fresh Energy generously called me the “architect” of Minnesota’s new solar energy standard (signed last week), and although that may be a bit generous, I’d like to provide a detailed description of the nation’s newest solar energy standard.

The topline:

Walmart Planning for Electricity Self-Reliance in 7 Years

Submitted by Anonymous on May 26, 2013 - 2:11pm

Walmart is planning to be operating completely free of utility company electricity in 7 years.

And you’ll see that it has some challenging implications for the current utility business model.

First, consider these key points made by CEO Mike Duke at Walmart’s annual Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting. The company intends to:

PJM Releases Capacity Auction Results, Bad News for FirstEnergy & for PJM Land Owners

Submitted by Anonymous on May 26, 2013 - 10:18am

Last week, PJM Interconnection released the results of this year’s Base Residual Auction for generation capacity to be delivered in 2016/2017.  In their testimony in the Harrison plant case at the WV PSC, FirstEnergy employees have been claiming that the plant has to be dumped on WV rate payers right now, because capacity prices are set to rise.  Didn’t happen.

Energy Efficiency, the Only Electricity Resource That Pays You a Bonus

Submitted by Anonymous on May 21, 2013 - 4:49pm

We have been hearing a lot of talk, in both FirstEnergy’s and AEP’s coal plant dumping cases at the WV PSC, about energy efficiency.  Let’s take a step back and look at exactly what energy efficiency as an electricity resource means.

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