Willett Kempton, Jermey Firestone, the News Journal, Green Delaware and possibly other parties, are petitioning the Public Service Commission (PSC) today for rights to see the entire bids for a Coal Power Plant, Offshore Windfarm, and a Natural Gas Power Plant.
The group will also ask for justification for each part that is redacted. This challenge follows on the heals of a charge that the PSC was using illegal criteria for judging the new projects.
“The law did not include a “lowest price” criteria, but lowest expected price has been assigned the greatest weight in the analysis process, with a point value of 33 out of 100, making it “the main legal issue,” according to Firestone.”
For more on the “criteria” question see this January 31st NJ story
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Is it me or does it seem that the PSC is using the redactions and the skewed criteria to favor one of the bidders?
To learn more, come to the Progressive Demcorats for Delaware Meeting this Wednesday (2/7/07) at 7:00 PM at DelDems Headquarters, (19 East Commons Blvd, New Castle, DE.
Willet Kempton from the University of Delaware’s College of Marine and Earth Sciences will be talking about the wind power bid.
Regarding wind power, Ellen Liebovitz of Green Delaware writes:
Wind power generates electricity with:
-No air emissions
-No impacts or energy consumption from mining, transporting, or storing fuel.
-No cooling water impacts
-No water pollution
-No wastes
The PDD meeting will have letters to the DPS Commissioners and other government leaders for you to sign if you wish, or a take-home kit so you can write your own letter.
Come on out to get the facts about wind power in Delaware.