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Tennessee Gas Pipeline: Company rejects alternate routes suggested by regulators
2016-01-01 08:19:53| Energy - Topix.net
Kinder Morgan is doubling down on its preferred route for a proposed Tennessee Gas Pipeline project through central Berkshire County, the Pioneer Valley and a swath of southern New Hampshire, telling federal regulators several alternative proposals are non-starters. In a New Year's Eve filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the company's engineers detailed how a suggested hybrid route alongside an existing pipeline through parts of Richmond, the state-protected Kampoosa Bog Drainage Area in Stockbridge and Lee, and towns to the south, then connecting to a 19-mile stretch along the Massachusetts Turnpike, would be impractical and environmentally damaging.
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Regulators deal a blow to rooftop solar industry
2015-12-23 08:52:43| Electronics - Topix.net
With no discussion, state regulators today voted unanimously to slash the value of credits rooftop solar customers earn for generating excess energy. The three-member Public Utilities Commission adopted a proposed order that would reduce by 75 percent the amount NV Energy pays customers for excess power their solar panels produce and change the flat service rate for customers with solar panels.
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Regulators deal a blow to rooftop solar industry
2015-12-22 23:27:30| Semiconductors - Topix.net
With no discussion, state regulators today voted unanimously to slash the value of credits rooftop solar customers earn for generating excess energy. The 113-page order by the Public Utilities Commission outlines a plan that cuts the value of so-called net metering and includes a requirement that existing customers adopt the lower rate over four years.
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On wrong track: Regulators miss real problem in rail-car explosions
2015-12-20 05:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dispatch: Track defects caused fiery crude-oil derailments that forced 1,100 people from their homes in the Appalachian village of Mount Carbon, West Virginia, this year and killed 47 people in a Canadian town in 2013. In fact, a Dispatch analysis of federal records shows that track defects and human error are to blame for most railway incidents. Yet U.S. regulators continue to focus on tanker cars instead of the rails that support the cars and millions of gallons of Bakken crude, a type of highly...
UPDATE 1-GSA asks regulators to reject Pepco-Exelon deal-Washington Post
2015-12-18 18:18:54| Energy - Topix.net
Dec 18 The agency that acts as the U.S. government's landlord and realtor has asked regulators in the District of Columbia to reject the merger of utilities Exelon Corp and Pepco Holdings Inc, unless it provides a better deal for taxpayers, the Washington Post reported. Attorneys for the General Services Administration said the deal subsidizes the rates of residential customers at the expense of federal taxpayers, the Post said, citing filings it had reviewed.
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