Dominion Energy Transmission can continue work on certain portions of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, despite a court order halting construction on the 600-mile project, according to an Aug. 14 decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
With surging crude oil production in the Permian Basin reaching the limits of the pipeline system, pipeline companies are working to build new capacity to avoid bottlenecks that could restrict exports out of the area.
Plans to build an 800-MW offshore wind farm off the Massachusetts coast near Martha’s Vineyard advanced on Aug. 1 when developer Vineyard Wind announced power contract deals with three major state utilities that set a levelized price of 6.5¢ per kW/hr.
After a management crisis in early July, operations at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority have settled down following the appointment of electrical engineer José F. Ortiz as the utility’s new executive director and chief operating officer.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Dominion Energy’s proposed acquisition of South Carolina-based SCANA Corp., but ongoing issues related to SCANA’s role as a partial owner of the abandoned V.C. Summer nuclear power plant expansion project continue to raise uncertainty surrounding the merger.
There is a renewed interest in construction of high-voltage direct-current transmission lines as they are viewed as an ideal solution to deliver far away wind and solar energy, and to stabilize intermittent renewable power, concepts backed by a recent report prepared for the Energy Information Administration.
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