Tue, Mar 24, 2020
“Grid operators, utilities and federal regulators are preparing for the spread in the United States of the new coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, a pandemic that is silencing activity across the globe and cutting into overseas power demand.” Read the full article on E&E News.
Tue, Dec 18, 2018
After months of debates, revisions and holdouts, Congress finally passed the 2018 Farm Bill, leaving only President Trump between the political limbo it has made its home and its life as law. The final version of the bill maintains the $50 million annual funding for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), the popular subsidy program […]
Wed, Oct 24, 2018
ST. LOUIS (Oct. 22, 2018) – Today Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE), announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire, after construction, a wind generation facility of up to a 157-megawatts (MW) to be located in northwest Missouri. Today’s agreement, along with the previously-announced planned addition of a 400 MW wind […]
Tue, Oct 16, 2018
Summer is finally behind us and there is a chill in the air. Don’t let the chill come into your house though. The U.S. Department of Energy provides some easy energy saving tips HERE. So turn your thermostats down, change your filters, seal up drafty windows, and save yourself some $$$. Even though the temperature outside is dropping, […]
Fri, Aug 24, 2018
The Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) has given initial approval for the state’s third-largest regulated utility, Empire District, to build a major wind farm to generate power. In a statement, the PSC said, “the Commission has granted Empire certain accounting and depreciation treatment related to the CSP (Empire’s proposal known as it’s “Customer Savings Plan”)as […]
