Examines the current frameworks for recovery of lost and unaccounted-for gas in each U.S. jurisdiction, and recommends changes to those frameworks to encourage improved management of pipeline leaks.
Bans the venting of natural gas and requires that vented gas be burned through a flare with the estimated volume flared reported to the director of the oil and gas division at the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources.
Prompted NY utilities to undertake climate change vulnerability assessments.
CPUC considered the impacts of closing a Mohave coal facility on the nearby Hopi and Navajo communities, and allocated funds from the sale of Acid Rain SO2 allowances to help transition.
A 2016 PG&E joint proposal to retire the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant provides one model of a just transition. The agreement outlines severance, retention programs, and retraining and redeployment.
Xcel Energy will shut down two of the three units at the Comanche coal plant near Pueblo Colorado, and replace that power with a mix of new renewable energy and battery storage projects along with existing natural gas plants.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reduced its coal consumption by 25% in 2016 with the divestiture from the Navajo Generating Station, part of a plan to divest from all coal sources by 2025.
The Public Service Electric and Gas Company has announced that it will retire or sell all remaining interests in coal-fired power plants, and has no plans to build or acquire new fossil-fueled generation.
Estimated that the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association could save at least $600 million by 2030 by using their coal plants less and investing in more renewable energy.
Members of the RE-AMP Network published a 2019 report, Rural Electrification 2.0, which investigates pathways for coal plant transition at rural electric cooperatives in the Midwest.