Some Construction Owners Need Specific Results If a power plant owner needs to retrofit its plant to comply with specific restrictions on emissions, it needs to hire designers and contractors to achieve this result. This poses contracts problems with allocating risks because of the way insurance policies are written. Contract Agreement Forms Have Adapted Construction… Read More »Guarantees and Insurance
NATURAL GAS AND ELECTRICITY IN NEW ENGLAND/ REGULATION AND MARKETS Sitting on the seam between free markets and regulation are public utilities. Markets and regulation are conceptual competitors. Most agree that the best way to rationalize distribution is through markets but government, what we agree to do together, often expresses itself through regulations. Natural gas… Read More »Fatter Gas Pipes Needed to Power New England?
Energy disputes have it all – States v Feds, markets v regulators, environment v economy - with liberals, conservatives and rabid partisans in each camp. The FERC v EPSA (2016) US Supreme Court lawsuit was a flat out challenge to Federal Energy regulators right to make market rules. The agency acted (to authorize payments to… Read More »Demand Response Survives Supreme Challenge
Court Says Feds Can’t Set Price for Peak Shaving Negawatts
Energy cases often start shoving matches between Federal and State’s rights groups. Each State’s Department of Public Utilities regulates those markets – except when the Federal Government’s regulations trump the States’. The Decision A Federal Appeals Court sided against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in a May 2014 case, deciding that FERC could not… Read More »Court Says Feds Can’t Set Price for Peak Shaving Negawatts
Boston to Owners of the 1050 Biggest Buildings – Disclose Energy & H2O Use Annually
Boston now requires building owners to disclose annual energy and water use and greenhouse gas emissions and the City will make that data public. The ordinance passed in 2013 applies to 1050 large buildings in 2014 with more buildings subject to the rules every year. An Energy Star website Portfolio Manager simplifies the owners’… Read More »Boston to Owners of the 1050 Biggest Buildings – Disclose Energy & H2O Use Annually
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