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Judge changes ruling on solar power rebate
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Ameren Missouri and Kansas City Power and Light will have to continue paying rebates to consumers who install solar energy systems in their homes or businesses. The companies stopped the practice after Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green issued a ruling on June 29 that the solar rebate provision of [...]
Prop. C redux: Renew Missouri says renewable energy issue will be back on ballot
July 28, 2011 No CommentCOLUMBIA, Mo. — Three years after Missouri citizens voted to establish renewable energy standards for the state’s publicly held utilities, the writers of the original ballot issue say it’s time to take another vote. After years of wrangling with utilities, the Public Service Commission, state legislators and now a Cole County Circuit Court judge, over [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Public Service Commission has ruled that Ameren Missouri should continue giving rebates to customers who install solar energy systems in their homes or businesses for at least another 120 days. The utility was seeking to end the practice after a Cole County judge declared the rebate program unconstitutional on [...]
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BY TIM SAMPSON Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – There’s still a few weeks until the Fourth of July, but the battle over corn – in the form of ethanol subsidies – was high on the agenda of D.C. lawmakers this week. Missouri’s two senators were part of a successful effort to block a [...]
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April 8, 2011 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — New language regarding the state’s renewable energy standards is headed for the House floor. This week, a House committee passed legislation that it hopes will allow the state’s renewable energy statute passed by voters in 2008 to go into effect. The new language requires Missouri-based utilities to make [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville, on Tuesday appointed a Democratic state representative from Kansas City to head a special committee tasked with writing new language for the state’s renewable energy rules. The state’s largest public utilities, Public Service Commission members, renewable energy supporters and business [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With the future of how big a role renewable energy will play in Missouri power company’s plans in the years to come, a member of the Public Service Commission is trying to get the stakeholders in the debate to come to an agreement. Commissioner Robert Kenney is chairing a series of [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri timber producers and farmers, stung by the downturn in the housing industry, thought they could see light at the end of the tunnel with new advances in technology, and an emphasis in renewable energy. Now it turns out that light might be a train. [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Nearly two years after Missourians voted to create a renewable energy standard, the details of making the rule a reality languish in a maze of governmental rulemaking procedure. Thursday, members of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a legislative committee that oversees state rulemaking, [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – New rules are in place to help the state’s four largest electric utilities meet a 2011 deadline to increase renewable energy use. At least two percent of the electricity sold by the utilities to their customers must be generated or purchased from renewable resources by [...]
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