Murkowski 'frustrated' by FERC impasse, pushes White House for nominees; As New York utilities file storage plans, interconnection hurdles loom; New Hampshire grid mod proposal recommends 'tempered' approach to AMI; Energy transition: Carbon capture is clean energy, too
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The 300 MW wind, 50 MW solar and 30 MW storage project "will be a model for integrating renewable generation and storage" to economically reduce emissions and maintain reliability, PGE CEO Maria Pope said.
The chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said some issues are "perhaps deadlocked right now" due to a vacancy on the commission, but said the White House has not communicated about potential nominees.
The state's six investor-owned utilities laid out "reasonable" timelines for procuring the rights to schedule and dispatch storage by 2022, but the grid operator needs to address the long interconnection process, according to industry-focused coalition NY-BEST.
Staff of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission say they are still working on cyber security issues and expect to file an addendum to their recommendations, once the work is complete.
Slow deployment of carbon capture and storage is not a technology problem, but the result of a lack of policy mechanisms to place a value on carbon, writes Global CCS Institute head Brad Page.
As the comment period on FERC Order 841 compliance fillings closed, various utilities and regulators also asked to play larger roles on storage interconnection requirements.
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