Kennedy Maize

Knoxville

Covering energy and environment from Washington for over 50 years. Editor and publisher of The Quad Report. [email protected]

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Western states consider forming electric utility, ousting PacifiCorp

4 days ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeUtah, Wyoming, and Idaho are making preliminary moves that could split up investor-owned PacifiCorp, based in Portland, Ore., and owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. PacifiCorp has two operating subsidiaries, Pacific Power, located in Portland, serving Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington, and Rocky Mountain Power, located in Salt Lake City. Rocky Mountain Power serves Utah, Wyoming, and southeastern Idaho.
Western states consider forming electric utility, ousting PacifiCorp

5 days ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeUtah, Wyoming, and Idaho are making preliminary moves that could split up investor-owned PacifiCorp, based in Portland, Ore., and owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. PacifiCorp has two operating subsidiaries, Pacific Power, located in Portland, serving Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington, and Rocky Mountain Power, located in Salt Lake City. Rocky Mountain Power serves Utah, Wyoming, and southeastern Idaho.
How the Trump EPA’s discarded ‘gold bars’ turned to fool’s gold

1 week ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Trump administration’s shoot from the hip approach to governance has suffered more foot wounds at the hands of the U.S. courts. A federal district court judge in Washington last week (Apr. 15) reversed EPA’s order to freeze $27 billion in funds allocated last year under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to small non-profit groups working on energy efficiency and clean energy products.
How the Trump EPA’s discarded ‘gold bars’ turned to fool’s gold

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Trump administration’s shoot from the hip approach to governance has suffered more foot wounds at the hands of the U.S. courts. A federal district court judge in Washington last week (Apr. 15) reversed EPA’s order to freeze $27 billion in funds allocated last year under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to small non-profit groups working on energy efficiency and clean energy products.
Does Trump’s “zero based regulatory budgeting” make any sense?

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeA Britishism – “gobsmacked” – characterizes much of the reaction to President Trump’s April 9 executive order that attempts to impose supermarket pull-dates on energy regulations. It is titled the “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy” order. “Unlawful and destructive,” says Clint Vince, the esteemed head of the energy practice at the D.C. law firm Dentons.
Does Trump’s “zero based regulatory budgeting” make any sense?

1 week ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeA Britishism — “gobsmacked” — characterizes much of the reaction to President Trump’s April 9 executive order that attempts to impose supermarket pull-dates on energy regulations. It is titled the “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy” order. “Unlawful and destructive,” says Clint Vince, the esteemed head of the energy practice at the D.C. law firm Dentons.
Data center siting circus continues

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week (Apr. 19) refused to reverse a November decision killing a plan for an Amazon data center to snuggle up next to Talen Energy’s 2500-MW Susquehanna nuclear plant. The Pennsylvania data center would have gobbled up 480-MW of the plant’s capacity. The original proposal came in the form of a request by the PJM Interconnection to alter its interconnection policy to accommodate the co-location of the data center and the generating plant.
Data center siting circus continues

1 week ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizeThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week (Apr. 19) refused to reverse a November decision killing a plan for an Amazon data center to snuggle up next to Talen Energy’s 2500-MW Susquehanna nuclear plant. The Pennsylvania data center would have gobbled up 480-MW of the plant’s capacity. The original proposal came in the form of a request by the PJM Interconnection to alter its interconnection policy to accommodate the co-location of the data center and the generating plant.
Trump’s Greenland: Micro nukes, high-speed rail, and anarcho-capitalism?

1 week ago | energycentral.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizePresident Trump’s strange lust to acquire Greenland, the world’s largest island, sparsely populated and part of Denmark, is largely unaccompanied by any notion of just what America might do with this frozen land. Nuuk, Greenland's capital According to Reuters, billionaire tech mogul and PayPal founder Peter Thiel and some of his tech cronies have a plan for what would in Trump’s mind become an American colony.
Trump’s Greenland: Micro nukes, high-speed rail, and anarcho-capitalism?

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Kennedy Maize

By Kennedy MaizePresident Trump’s strange lust to acquire Greenland, the world’s largest island, sparsely populated and part of Denmark, is largely unaccompanied by any notion of just what America might do with this frozen land. According to Reuters, billionaire tech mogul and PayPal founder Peter Thiel and some of his tech cronies have a plan for what would in Trump’s mind become an American colony.