“W e have a firm bid under $40/MWh. The bad news is, 18 months after our last contract, we're seeing prices 20 percent lower. So there's a little bit of buyer's regret going on here with the Recurrent (Energy) deal that we did. That's part of the risk of...
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“W e have a firm bid under $40/MWh. The bad news is, 18 months after our last contract, we're seeing prices 20 percent lower. So there's a little bit of buyer's regret going on here with the Recurrent (Energy) deal that we did. That's part of the risk of being a bit of an early mover in technology," said Khalil Shalabi, the Austin Energy's VP of energy market operations and resource planning. T he rules set by the EPA, which took effect in April, will remain in place while the case goes back to a lower court for the EPA to decide how to account for costs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is expected to ask the Obama administration to reconsider its rule-making. More stringent emission rules were supposed to be fully in place next year. Now, the contested issue is whether health risks are the only consideration under the Clean Air Act. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity applauded the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, calling it "a win for A
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