The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued preliminary permits to two companies considering the development of pumped-storage projects: Freedom Works LLC and Owyhee Energy Storage LLC. Freedom Works proposes to study the feasibility of the 4,000-MW Ulysses Pump Storage Hydro Project in Grant County, West Virginia. The proposed project would consist of a new upper...
Staff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have prepared a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for relicensing of the 84.8-MW Bucks Creek Hydropower Project (No. 619). Pacific Gas and Electric Company and City of Santa Clara, California are co-applicants for the project. The co-applicants filed an application on Dec.12, 2016 (supplemented on May 22, 2018)...
Bernard McNamee, who has been part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission since he was nominated by President Trump and confirmed in late 2018, apparently is stepping down from FERC, according to reports. McNamee said he wanted to spend more time with his family, according to reports of the meeting at LAW360. LAW360 and other...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a preliminary permit to Pumped Hydro Storage LLC to study the feasibility of the proposed 1,500-MW Salt River Project Indian Spring Pumped Storage Project in Arizona. Construction of the closed-loop pumped storage project, in Maricopa County, would involve building two new reservoirs. The lower reservoir would have a...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has denied Sugar River Hydro II LLC’s request for a license extension for its 200-kW Sugar River II Hydroelectric Project. This operating license for this project, on the Sugar River in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, was issued May 9, 1991, and expires April 30, 2021. It was issued to William...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued preliminary permits for the study of Pennsylvania hydro projects: one to Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XXVII LLC for 850-kW Cowanesque Dam Hydropower Project and one to Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XXIX LLC for 1.5-MW Curwensville Dam Hydropower Project. Both projects would be located at U.S. Army Corps of...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a preliminary permit to Premium Energy Holdings LLC to study the feasibility of the proposed Intermountain Pumped Storage Project in Millard County, Utah. The closed-loop pumped storage project would have a capacity of 1,200 MW to 2,000 MW and consist of: Two new reservoirs, a lower reservoir upstream...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has directed PJM Interconnection L.L.C. to expand its Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) to address state-subsidized electric generation resources (with certain exemptions), a decision it says will “protect the competitive capacity market administered by PJM.” FERC says this action reaffirms and builds on its June 29, 2018, order, which...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a preliminary permit to Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XXVI LLC to study the feasibility of the proposed 1-MW Prompton Dam Hydropower Project on the West Branch Lackawaxen River in Pennsylvania. The project would be located at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Dam in Wayne County. The proposed...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued a preliminary permit to Four Lakes Task Force to study the feasibility of the 6-MW Edenville Dam Hydroelectric Project on the Tittabawassee and Tobacco river system in Michigan. The project, located immediately upstream of the confluence of the two rivers in Gladwin and Midland counties, would consist of:...