{"title":"Environmental Strategies: Strategies for Compliance With Mercury and Air Toxics Standards","authors":"Stephanie Sebor","doi":"10.1002/GAS.21781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/GAS.21781","url":null,"abstract":"The Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule comes into effect for existing coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) on April 16, 2015. This article summarizes the rule's requirements and sets forth considerations for affected sources evaluating their compliance options under the rule.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132611535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Legal: Detecting Foreign Corrupt Practices Crucial to Due Diligence in Acquisitions","authors":"Brandt Leibe","doi":"10.1002/gas.21782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21782","url":null,"abstract":"Due diligence in corporate transactions can be a major project undertaken with significant time constraints. Acquiring companies will ordinarily conduct detailed reviews of target companies' finances and contracts. Depending on the size and significance of the acquisition, there may be dozens of other issues delved into during the due diligence process. As part of this process, acquiring companies must not overlook an assessment of whether the target company has knowingly made corrupt payments to foreign officials to obtain or retain business that would constitute violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115813871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Gas Matters: Gas‐Fired Generation and EPA's 111(d) Rules—Up to the Task?","authors":"Richard G. Smead","doi":"10.1002/GAS.21784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/GAS.21784","url":null,"abstract":"The Environmental Protection Agency's proposals to regulate carbon from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act are in the middle of their comment process, after being issued in June.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115107542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NERC and Enforcement Issues: NERC Provides New Definition of Bulk Electric System","authors":"D. Carpentier","doi":"10.1002/gas.21785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21785","url":null,"abstract":"Section 215 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) broadly defines the Bulk-Power System (BPS) as “(A) facilities and control systems necessary for operating an interconnected electric energy transmission network (or any portion thereof); and (B) electric energy from generating facilities needed to maintain transmission system reliability.” Defining the extent of the BPS is important because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requires each user, owner, and operator of the BPS to register with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and it is this registration that dictates the reliability standards with which the entity must comply.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124952159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Litigation—Environment: EPA Reinforces Standards to Use “Representative Data” After Sierra Club","authors":"James W. Sanderson, Samuel Lee Lofland","doi":"10.1002/gas.21783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21783","url":null,"abstract":"On January 22, 2013, in Sierra Club v. EPA, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an opinion that addressed some Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permitting program issues. Following this case, on March 4, 2013, the EPA issued guidance entitled “Draft Guidance for PM2.5 Permit Modeling,” and on May 20, 2014, issued its final “Guidance for PM2.5 Permit Modeling.” Sierra Club held that the Environmental Protection Agency lacked the legal authority to create an exemption to the PSD preconstruction data-gathering requirement through the use of Significant Monitoring Concentrations (SMCs).","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131572588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Gas & Electricity Pricing: Why Virtual Pipelines Transporting CNG Are Becoming a Reality","authors":"Tanya Bodell","doi":"10.1002/gas.21778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21778","url":null,"abstract":"What happens when supply of a major input to production shifts dramatically? Markets find a way.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122029092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NERC's Reliability Assurance Initiative: What Registered Entities Can Do","authors":"J. Wiseman, J. Sullivan","doi":"10.1002/GAS.21774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/GAS.21774","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 2003, a handful of power lines in Ohio tripped after making contact with overgrown trees. Over the next 13 minutes, the electric grid experienced cascading failures that left an estimated 50 million people in the United States and Canada without power. Two years later, Congress added Section 215 to the Federal Power Act, giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) jurisdiction over the reliability of the bulk power system (BPS). Section 215 also directed FERC to designate an Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) to establish and enforce reliability standards with penalties up to a million dollars per day per violation.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127523624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy and the Environment: EPA's New Carbon Rule: Lots of Heat, Little Light","authors":"J. Lesser","doi":"10.1002/gas.21777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21777","url":null,"abstract":"Shakespeare seems to describe appropriately the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed new Clean Power Act rule, a 645-page monstrosity that will, supposedly, reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electric-generating plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. Although power plant emissions have already decreased significantly since 2005, thanks to the wonders of hydraulic fracturing and low-cost natural gas, the EPA's rule nevertheless is supposed to save the world from the multitudinous horrors that will be wrought by global warming—climate change, climate volatility, or whatever today's favorite moniker happens to be.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116516776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electric Regulation: Both Wind and Solar Threaten Financial Feasibility of Base-Load Generation","authors":"N. S. Bowden","doi":"10.1002/gas.21779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21779","url":null,"abstract":"The interconnection of and production from larger quantities of renewable generation on the nation's power system has altered the traditional operational paradigm. The intermittency of two renewable generation sources, wind and solar, also known as variable energy resources, that constitute the most substantial investment introduces new challenges for power system operators.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122190809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Gas Production: Debtor Fails in Attempt to Use Bankruptcy for Fracking Profits","authors":"A. Sabino","doi":"10.1002/gas.21775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.21775","url":null,"abstract":"Lately, we have, quite naturally, devoted a great deal of our writing to the paramount issue of fracking, as it resides on the cutting edge of the natural gas industry.","PeriodicalId":311429,"journal":{"name":"Natural Gas & Electricity","volume":"177 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120929828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}