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House Committee Moves Renewable Energy Language Bill
By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri House committee gave its approval Thursday to legislation stripping controversial language out of Public Service Commission rules on the state’s renewable energy standards. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Luann Ridgeway, R-Kansas City, takes language about where utilities can purchase renewable energy out of [...]
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 [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A controversial measure to increase renewable energy projects in and near Missouri was stripped from the final version of the state’s new renewable energy law. The Missouri Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 to send the voter-mandated renewable energy standards to Secretary of State [...]
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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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