The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected within weeks to issue a decision about the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) proposal to significantly expand its tracking and updates on the deployment of smart grid technologies, a move intended to promote use of technologies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase electricity ... Read More
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently resolved a dispute over who owns renewable energy credits (RECs) when the power-purchase agreement (PPA) is silent, according to law firm Stoel Rives LLP.
Following the establishment of an REC tracking system for Minnesota, Xcel Energy asked the PUC to clarify ownership of RECs associated with 46 wind, biomass, ... Read More
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission approved a final order on August 31, 2010 that significantly scales back Public Service Co. of New Mexico’s plans for solar photovoltaic generation.
The PRC cut the amount of solar PV that PNM had proposed to install on its system from more than 80 megawatts to about 45 megawatts, said Commissioner Jason ... Read More
On August 26, 2010, the Maryland PSC announced a rulemaking session for October 26, 2010, regarding amendments to the state’s net metering regulations. Initially, Staff provided the group with a “strawman” draft regulation. Since Staff anticipated that the most contentious issue was likely to be the question of how to value generation credits, the strawman ... Read More
ARIZONA – TEP PV Rebate Levels Lowered
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) received more applications for its PV rebate program than expected during the first half of 2010. As a result, TEP filed a request with the Arizona Corporation Commission in July to reduce rebate levels in an effort to maintain program funding through the end of ... Read More
Arizona utility regulators are designing rules that would require power companies to buy electricity from solar developers at prearranged prices. The “feed-in tariff” aims to guarantee profits for solar developers, while encouraging more solar-power generation in Arizona.
Advocates of the tariff say it is needed because solar-power developers need to be fairly certain that they can ... Read More
California state regulators have spent the last few years trying to revise a program that was meant to boost small-scale renewable energy generation but wasn’t popular because it wasn’t lucrative enough to attract many takers. Now, a new proposal has emerged that would up the project sizes allowed and rely on auctions to pick winners ... Read More
WHAT’S NEW AS OF AUGUST 2010?
Note from the Editor
The Solar Panel Next Door
Sharing solar (or wind, or micro-hydro, etc…) is the hottest new trend in net metering. It’s exciting to see so much progress within the last year alone, with more and more states jumping on the community renewables bandwagon. This month Delaware added its ... Read More
The Missouri Public Service Commission is seeking comments from stakeholders and the general public on possible legislative and/or regulatory ways to improve and clarify the Renewable Energy Standard Law in Missouri.
In June, the Public Service Commission, in a 3-2 vote, adopted rules that set the structure, operation and procedures for increasing the amount of electricity ... Read More
On July 9, 2010, the Kansas Corporation Commission approved net metering regulations as required by the 2009 Net Metering and Easy Connection Act. In April of this year, the Kansas Corporation Commission issued proposed regulations to which the KCC only made minor changes before issuing a final approval. The original legislation specified that utilities allow net metering ... Read More
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