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Comment: UK leaders need to embrace the cost of Britain’s green future

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Vince Zabielski is a Partner with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. What fate awaits the power sector under what will likely be a Labour government, and why is the question so important? gigawatts of nuclear power lost between now and 2028, and Hinkley Point C won’t be online until after 2030 at the earliest.

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ComEd Agrees to $200M Fine on Federal Bribery Charge

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Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act, passed in late 2016, qualified Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year as zero-carbon resources. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6

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ComEd Bribery Scandal Clouds Picture for Exelon’s Illinois Nuclear Plants

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” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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2 More Western Utilities Move to Close Coal Plants Early, Shifting to Renewables and Storage

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Tucson Electric Power’s 2020 Integrated Resource Plan calls for a steady phase-down of its coal-fired Springerville Generating Station: the plant would start operating on a seasonal basis in 2023, close down one of its 425-megawatts unit in 2027, and the other remaining unit by 2032. gigawatts of energy storage by 2035.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

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gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. gigawatts by 2023. The CCA is now responsible for about 14 percent of load in the region, and will be responsible for 357 megawatts of procurement by 2023. Five other, much smaller CCAs will each need to procure between 5 to 17 megawatts apiece by 2023.

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Dominion Targets 24GW of Renewables and Storage in Move Toward Virginia’s Clean Energy Goals

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Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. Dominion's new IRP would expand its offshore wind capacity to 5.1

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

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For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. billion capital plan for 2020 through 2023 is slightly higher than the $9.51