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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Ind. Gov't. - Some upcoming legislative committee meetings

The Indiana Commission on Courts, a legislative commission, will hold its first meeting this interim on Oct. 1st. The Agenda includes this item:

(5) Issues concerning placement of children in out-of-state rehabilitation and treatment programs by juvenile court judges.
Readers of the ILB will recognize this issue, discussed in a number of recent ILB entries under the heading "Apparently there are all sorts of surprises in the special session budget".

The Regulatory Flexibility Committee will meet on Sept. 22nd. Its tentative meeting agenda includes "Carbon Capture and Sequestration" in the morning and "Nuclear Power" in the afternoon, specifically:

Mark Cooper, Director of Research - Consumer Federation of America

Leslie Kass, Director, Policy and Programs - Nuclear Energy Institute

Ellen Ruff, President, Office of Nuclear Development - Duke Energy

This AP story today reports:
The debate likely will focus on whether state law should allow utilities that win approval to build nuclear reactors to charge rate payers before the reactor is operating.
Ths is called "Construction Work in Progress (CWIP)" and was a major issue in the Marble Hill debate in the early 1980s. A rationale for its use is to prevent "rate shock," the large increase in electrical prices that occurs when a massive new electricity generating plant enters the rate base. Other alternatives to address rate shock may include joint ownership, smaller plants, rating trending, and economic depreciation. I mention this because it has been many decades since Marble Hill's construction was halted; at the time CWIP was a phrase used in everyday conversation.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 13, 2009 05:21 PM
Posted to Indiana Government