Utility Urges Expanded Cost-Recovery Policies To Boost Wind Energy Projects

A major California utility is poised to ask federal energy regulators to expand its cost-recovery policies to include the proposed construction of transmission lines to a wind generation field north of Los Angeles. Should regulators agree to the move, it could set an important national precedent by reducing the costs for energy developers to connect clean-energy facilities to the national grid, according to industry sources. The company plans to ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by the end of...