Kingsport Power Company—doing business as AEP Appalachian Power—has made a filing with the Tennessee Regulatory Authority (TRA) requesting an increase in its base electric rates.
TECO Energy announced Sept. 21 that it has closed the sale of its coal mining subsidiary, TECO Coal LLC, to Cambrian Coal Corp., a Booth Energy company.
The University of Notre Dame announced Sept. 21 that the university will cease burning coal entirely within five years, and cut its carbon footprint by more than half by 2030.
Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal-fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
American Electric Power announced Sept. 10 that 7,209 MW of the company's unregulated generation fleet in the PJM Interconnection market cleared the capacity auction for the 2018-2019 delivery year, representing all of the capacity that AEP Generation Resources bid into the auction.
Responding to a notice of appeal from several states, including coal-reliant West Virginia and Kentucky, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a federal court that its Clean Power Plan can't be appealed because it is not final until it is published in the Federal Register.
Appalachian Power has filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) an updated transmission rate adjustment clause (T-RAC) request seeking a $78 million annual increase. However, Appalachian has separate proposals for reductions before the SCC that, if approved, result in February 2016 bills that are largely unchanged for a...
Gas, wind and solar resources continue to dominate the new generation landscape, with investment in the United States from 2015 to 2018 in gas resources, for instance, representing 109.3 GW, or 65%.
Kentucky Power on Aug. 28, in a twice-yearly fuel report filed at the Kentucky Public Service Commission, was essentially making the last such report where its 800-MW, coal-fired Big Sandy Unit 2 ran for the full period before being retired.