Weekender | June 2, 2018
The president’s directive to the Department of Energy comes the same day as the release of a memo advocating DOE use its emergency powers and a Cold War-era law to bail out at-risk plants.
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Turbulent markets and disruptive technology will require every fuel source — even those that are currently winning on low costs — to become even more efficient, writes Uptake's Michael Donohue.
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State officials released their first investigations into the 2017 California wildfire season last week, which could pose up to a $12 billion liability for PG&E.
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The federal government would purchase power from at-risk plants using its emergency authority and a Cold War-era nationalization law, according to a memo released Friday.
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PREPA is mired in bankruptcy and can't pay for a deal it just signed. Federal agencies, meanwhile, refuse to say if they will pick up the tab. |
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Part of a broader recently-enacted law, the policy makes New Jersey the fifth state to set an energy storage goal. |
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