INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Dec. 24 -- The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following agenda: * * * TO: Commission Chairman James F. Huston, Commissioners Bennett, Freeman, Veleta and Ziegner FROM: Commission Technical Divisions DATE: December 23, 2024 RE: 30-Day Utility Articles for Conference on Monday, December 30, 2024 @ 1:00 p.m. The following thirty-day filings have been submitted to the Commission. Each item was reviewed by the appropriate Commission Technical Divisions a  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Dec. 24 -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued the following order (Case No. 2024-00152) on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * In the Matter of: Electronic Application Of Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. For A Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity To Convert Its Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization System From A Quicklime Reagent Process To A Limestone Reagent Handling System At Its East Bend Generating Station And For Approval To Amend Its Environmental Compliance Plan For Recove  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Americans for Tax Reform issued the following commentary on Dec. 22, 2024: * * * How Trump Tax Cuts Helped Manufacturers By John Kartch Today is the seventh anniversary of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act signed into law by President Trump on Dec. 22, 2017. Thanks to the tax cuts, American manufacturers hired new employees, built new facilities, purchased new equipment, and invested in employees through pay raises, increased benefits, and bonuses. ATR has compiled manufacturer  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Dec. 24 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Minnesota Permitting Reform is Cautionary Tale: CEI Written by Sarah Montalbano The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) examined Minnesota's permitting woes in a new study, "Feeling Minnesota: A cautionary tale for permitting reformers." While the federal permitting process is a  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 23 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The manic pace of sharing, storing, securing, and serving data has a manic price power consumption. To counter this, Virginia Tech mathematicians are leveraging algebraic geometry to target the inefficiencies of data centers. "We as individuals generate tons of data all the time, not to mention what large companies are producing," said Gretchen Matthews, mathematics professor and director of the Southwest Virginia node o  more