What's Happening in Energy - May 2

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What's Happening in Energy — May 2
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This Colorado docket on its integrated resource plan is full of demand expectations and cost estimates from other US electricity markets (Docket profile). Of note: this February testimony in Kentucky on gas power plant prices (Document) and this presentation from Indiana Michigan Power on its demand growth expectations (Document). Here’s the heart of it:

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In Ohio, FirstEnergy’s current rate case “has produced approximately 370,879 documents consisting of approximately 764,244 pages” of documents since February 21, 2024.
Docket profile
Filing

And incidentally of interest: one issue in the rate case is about the improper use of ratepayer funds to re-name a sports stadium!
Filing

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Also in Ohio, The Williams Companies is planning to build, own, and operate two 200-megawatt gas plants to sell power directly to a [redacted] company. Here’s a useful overview on the project cost ($0.7 billion) and its economic benefits: 
Document
Docket profile

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In California, Pacificorp has begun proceedings on its wildfire expense management account. Watch this space: for now it is a lot of data requests and responses, but more meaty stuff will appear later. Docket profile

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This proceeding in Louisiana — about Entergy gas plants built largely to serve the demand from Meta's enormous new data center — is a master class in redaction. Check out this testimony from page 7 and forward.
Filing

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In Virginia, Halcyon favorite Rappahannock Electric Cooperative is kicking off a discussion on large load tariffs (read: data centers), with plans to implement by July 1.
Docket profile
Order for Notice and Comment

(I particularly like this one set of comments, one of which begins with "I used ChatGPT to help me with my comment".)
Document

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Florida power utilities are kicking off their 2026-2035 Storm Protection Plans. Worth checking out (and following!) these dockets as they develop:

- Florida Power & Light (Docket profile)
- Duke Energy Florida (Docket profile)
- Tampa Electric Co (Docket profile)

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In Missouri, we return to Evergy's integrated resource plan and a rebuttal on its gas price forecasts (too low) and its assessment of battery energy storage (too conservative).
Docket profile
Filing

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In South Carolina, Duke Energy Carolinas submitted an ex parte brief on it to the Public Service Commission on its merger with Progress Energy, entitled "One Utility". Here's a chart purporting to show balancing operations, though without any X or Y axis units labeled.
Presentation
Docket profile