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E&E News
3 days ago
- Business
- E&E News
Great Plains grid operator asks to fast-track power plants
Another U.S. regional grid operator is proposing a process to fast-track connection agreements for power plants, a process aimed at heading off a looming shortage of generating capacity by the end of the decade. Southwest Power Pool, which spans the wind-soaked corridor from Texas to the Canadian border, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week to approve its Expedited Resource Adequacy Study process to take effect in late July. Little Rock, Arkansas-based SPP is the latest grid operator to accelerate power plant additions. FERC earlier this year approved a request from PJM Interconnection to do the same. More recently, FERC rejected a proposal from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which plans to re-file a revised version next month. Advertisement The rationale for the requests by regional transmission operators is largely the same: legacy fossil fuel power plants are being shuttered and new renewable and natural gas-fired replacements are stuck in a traffic jam of projects waiting on studies for approval to plug into the bulk power grid.
Al Arabiya
4 days ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Syria signs $7 billion energy deal with Qatari, Turkish, US consortium
Syria signed a $7 billion energy deal on Thursday with a consortium of Qatari, US and Turkish companies as it seeks to rehabilitate its war-ravaged electricity sector. The agreement was signed at the Syrian presidential palace in the presence of President Ahmed al-Sharaa and US envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack. The agreement involves building four combined-cycle gas turbine power plants with a total capacity of 4,000 megawatts, plus a 1,000 MW solar power plant in southern Syria. Construction is expected to begin after final agreements and financial close, and is targeted to finish within three years for the gas plants and less than two years for the solar plant. After 14 years of war, Syria's electricity sector has been suffering from severe damage to its grid and power stations, aging infrastructure, and persistent fuel shortages, generating only 1.6 gigawatts of electricity today, down from 9.5 GW before 2011.
The Verge
5 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
The US reportedly doesn't want to regulate CO2 from power plants anymore.
The Environmental Protection Agency is crafting a plan to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution limits on coal and gas-fired plants, the New York Times reports. Power plant emissions account for about a quarter of the nation's planet-heating emissions.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Documents show US EPA wants to erase greenhouse gas limits on power plants, NYT reports
(Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing internal agency documents reviewed by them.
Reuters
24-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Documents show US EPA wants to erase greenhouse gas limits on power plants, NYT reports
May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing internal agency documents reviewed by them.
