Mid-Atlantic wind transmission line clears hurdle
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 14, 2012
Tags: atlantic wind connection, Interior Department, maryland, mid-atlantic, offshore, power, wind
WASHINGTON — A huge underwater power line to serve wind farms planned off the East Coast cleared a regulatory hurdle Monday, although construction is still years away. The project, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection, would enable up to 7,000 megawatts of electricity to be produced at offshore wind farms from Virginia to New Jersey. [...]
SMECO gets $4M for Hurricane Irene relief
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, hurricane irene, relief, SMECO, Southern Maryland Electrical Co-op
WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded more than $4 million to the Southern Maryland Electrical Co-op in three Maryland counties. The federal funds will help recovery efforts following last year’s Hurricane Irene. The award was announced Wednesday by Rep. Steny Hoyer. The grants are 1.14 million in Charles County; $1.19 million in [...]
Speakers rail against Dominion Va. Power plans
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Tags: dominion, electrical, Energy, power, richmond, utility, virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — Dominion Virginia Power’s long-range energy plans were criticized Tuesday for relying too heavily on fossil fuels at the expense of renewables such as wind and solar and energy efficiency. Activists, grandparents, physicians and solar power producers were among the two dozen speakers at a hearing before the State Corporation Commission on the [...]
Government cuts summer gasoline price forecast
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Tags: barrel, energy department, gallon, gasoline, gasoline prices, oil, pump
NEW YORK — Gasoline prices likely won’t set any records this summer, thanks to a recent drop in the price of oil. The government on Tuesday slashed its forecast for average gas prices to $3.79 per gallon for the summer driving season. That’s down from an initial estimate of $3.95 and below 2008′s record average [...]
Garrett County proposes wind turbine setback
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Tags: deep creek lake, Energy, garrett county, maryland, setback, wind power, wind turbine
OAKLAND — The Garrett County Commissioners are proposing rules to put distance between wind turbines and homes. The formula proposed Tuesday would require turbines to be no closer to an occupied dwelling than five times the device’s height. For a 400-foot turbine, the setback would be 2,000 feet. The formula is part of a proposed [...]
Georgia company to fuel Maryland vehicles 
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: May 2, 2012
Tags: board of public works, comptroller peter franchot, Department of General Services, fuel, georgia, Government, Mansfield Oil Co., maryland, Maryland Statewide Fuel Dispensing Management System, vehicles
ANNAPOLIS — A Georgia-based company will be responsible for the supply and distribution of fuel at state facilities, despite the strenuous objections of Comptroller Peter Franchot, who lamented that a Maryland company did not win the $305 million award. Mansfield Oil Co. in Gainesville, Ga., was awarded a five-year contract by the Department of General [...]
Fight over exports at Cove Point
BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: April 29, 2012
Tags: cove point, export, marcellus shale, maryland, natural gas, shipment, sierra club, U. S. Energy Information Administration
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Lusby’s natural gas import terminal is a victim of the boom in domestic production, and the industry’s political and economic uncertainties are endangering its owner’s efforts to rebound by adding export capabilities to the facility to take advantage of the plant’s vicinity to the Marcellus Shale gas field. The development of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, [...]
Sierra Club blocks Md. natural gas export terminal
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: blocked, calvert cliffs, marcellus shale, maryland, natural gas, sierra club, terminal, washington
WASHINGTON — The Sierra Club says it will block an energy company’s plan to export liquefied natural gas from the booming Marcellus Shale formation. Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. is seeking to export 1 billion cubic feet per day through a terminal it owns in Maryland. A previous legal settlement gives the Sierra Club the ability [...]
BGE: Most customers to get $100 Exelon deal credit in May
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 20, 2012
Tags: 100, 2012, baltimore gas and electric, constellation, deal credit, exelon, maryland, may, merger, takeover
Baltimore Gas and Electric says most customers will get a $100 credit on their bills next month as part of the takeover of BGE parent Constellation Energy by Exelon Corp. The $7.9 billion takeover of Constellation Energy was completed last month, creating one of the largest competitive power suppliers in the United States. The two [...]
Obama wants to target oil market manipulation
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 17, 2012
Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, commodity futures trading commission, commodity futures trading commission chairman gary gensler, Congress, democrats, election, energy policies, federal trade commission chairman jon leibowitz, gas prices, House Speaker John Boehner, oil market, oil markets, president barack obama, price manipulation, regulators, republicans, securities and exchange commission, treasury secretary timothy geithner, wall street
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump. Obama wants Congress to strengthen federal supervision of oil markets, increase penalties for market [...]
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