Minnesota regulators on (October 7) stamped out manufacturing and petroleum groups' attempt to reverse approval of Xcel Energy's $25 million electric vehicle pilot program.The state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved the program in July, and five large industrial groups, including oil groups Marathon Petroleum and Flint Hills Resources, filed a petition with the commission on Aug. 6 asking regulators to reconsider the decision.Those groups argued the commission did not have authority to regulate Xcel for behind-the-meter charging and raised general ratepayer concerns. EV and clean energy stakeholders were skeptical of the groups' involvement, noting that it may be the beginning of a longer fight between oil and electric power interests as EV adoption grows. - Utility Dive
Monday, October 14, 2019
Greedheads foiled in effort to mess with electric vehicles in Minnesota
For now, anyway. I don't know what kind of court challenges might be available. Where do these assholes from Big Filthy Fossil Fuels get off?
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Shocking ... Koch operations would oppose electric vehicles ... after all, they were the ones that told Trump that suggestions by agribusiness interests that small refinery exemptions (SREs) have destroyed demand for ethanol are “simply untrue” ... which is probably good news for the former workers at Corn Plus which announced it's closing due to Trump's RFS waivers.
ReplyDeleteBTW ... did you hear that Trump insisted that farmers would have to find new land for realizing the Chinese purchases “The deal I just made with China is, by far, the greatest and biggest deal ever made for our Great Patriot Farmers in the history of our Council," Trump tweeted on Saturday.
https://www.afpm.org/sites/default/files/issue_resources/Ethanol-Producing-Refiners-Letter-to-Administration-on-SREs.pdf