Today, not all electric grid users pay for the costs that support the electric grid that serves all customers. Kerri Johannsen, energy program director for the Iowa Environmental Council, provided this comment to Bleeding Heartland on the special carve out for big players. 1 In Re: Distributed Generation, Docket No. ARES are recommended to review the changes to the administrative rules related to their RPS compliance (Title 83, Part 455: Renewable Portfolio Standard and Clean Coal Standard for Alternative Retail Electric Suppliers and Utilities Operating Outside their Service Areas).The Illinois Power Agency procures renewable resources for Ameren Illinois, ComEd, and MidAmerican to meet their Renewable Portfolio Standard obligations. NOI-2014-0001 (February 16, 2016). See the draft Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan for more information.It looks like your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. I haven’t heard of any Senate Democrats supporting this bill either.
That cost falls back onto all other customers.
Their record so far does not inspire trust. And my opinion of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, always tentative, just went way down. The Agency held workshops in May, 2017 to discuss the implementation of Public Act 99-0906. Because MEC seeks to minimize hazards to its personnel and facilities, other MEC customers and the general public, it is in the company’s interest to regulate the addition of customer generation. 17-0838. Information on the workshops and the responses to the Requests for Comments are contained here: Pursuant to Section 1-75(c)(1)(G) of the Illinois Power Agency Act, the Agency conducted an Initial Forward Procurement for one million annual RECs from new utility-scale wind projects and for 200,000 annual RECs from new utility-scale photovoltaic projects and brownfield site photovoltaic projects in August 2017. The SOLAR Act would address the customer fairness issue by eliminating the shifting of costs from one customer onto another, while maintaining the affordable and predictable energy that Iowans expect and deserve. They fall into three categories:MidAmerican’s bill threatens businesses that install PV systems as well as their potential customers.The last two groups registered against the bill on March 6. In 2017 the Agency conducted procurements for distributed renewable generation resources on behalf of Ameren Illinois, ComEd, and MidAmerican pursuant to the Agency's 2017 Procurement Plan.Public Act 99-0906 also revised how Alternative Retail Electric Suppliers ("ARES") comply with the RPS. As private generation grows, this system will become less sustainable, either further increasing the costs to all consumers or creating deficiencies in the integrity of the infrastructure through lack of resources which in turn will compromise jobs. If this bill were good for working people, wouldn’t the Iowa Association for Business and Industry and Americans for Prosperity be against it? 2 In Re: Distributed Generation, Docket No. During the past two years, no environmental organizations gave cover for corporate-backed Republican bills that hurt working Iowans by reducing their wages or workers’ compensation benefits or collective bargaining rights. (Effective June 1, 2017, those payments are no longer made to the Renewable Energy Resources Fund. With the passage of the SOLAR Act, Iowa can capitalize on a policy that will encourage solar growth through community solar, subscription-based solar and utility-scale solar, while also advancing private generation in a responsible and fair way. […][F]ormer Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal said the bill would “usher in a dramatic era in solar energy.” He disputed earlier claims that solar generators are already contributing to the cost of maintaining the grid. When last year’s big energy bill stalled in the Iowa House, backers The Senate amendment is a transparent bid to get the Pork Producers and biofuels industry to drop their opposition to MidAmerican’s bill. This amendment makes it even more clear that MidAmerican’s intent is not to “solve” an issue of one customer subsidizing another, but to kill Iowa’s growing, independent solar industry and shut down customer choice.MidAmerican did not respond to Bleeding Heartland’s inquiry about the Senate amendment, which undermines the company’s stated case for the bill (the so-called “cost shift” to other grid users). Other groups working on related issues have since joined the fight:I put the Iowa Farmers Union in this category, because more often than not that group aligns with environmental advocates, not industry groups representing conventional agriculture.When the Iowa legislature considers water quality or soil conservation bills, the environmental community and leading voices for Big Ag land in opposite camps.
MidAmerican presented the Board with questions related to MidAmerican's rights and obligations pursuant to the Iowa Code provisions concerning the supply of retail electric service. I sought comment from most of the lobbyists representing labor unions. The amendment simply clarified that difference. MidAmerican’s solar bill is now known as The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and Archer Daniels Midland are registered https://www.legis.iowa.gov/lobbyist/reports/declarations?ga=88&ba=SF583So much work goes into your posts. View the
THIRD UPDATE: Reader and longtime environmental activist Matt Ohloff, who represents Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund, correctly notes, “The bill would also harm people who have DG [distributed generation], non-utility owned wind. I bet even legislators learn a lot when they read them. MidAmerican is rumored to be planning to build a large solar array if state lawmakers approve and Governor Kim Reynolds signs this bill. After the workshops the Agency issued Requests for Comments. • Have entered into an electric service agreement with MidAmerican for interconnection and operation of on-site parallel distributed generation systems; and • Have a nameplate capacity of 100 kW or less. […] Under current state policy, private generators don’t always pay grid costs, which creates the cost shift.
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