38th Environmental Permitting Summer School

John Hampp, FPL’s Environmental Director, will address the complexities of providing electrical energy in Florida that meets the reliability, price, and environmental energy needs of regulators, customers, and communities. Angela Morrison will explain EPA’s recently finalized carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for new, modified, and existing fossil-fuel-fired steam electric generating units (EGUs) and new combustion turbine EGUs that would require the use carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and hydrogen co-firing, what changed from EPA’s proposal, EPA’s plans for existing combustion turbine EGUs, and what this could mean for Florida utilities. She will also briefly describe other important new greenhouse gas regulations and energy transition projects impacting utilities and industry in Florida. Ken Kosky, who has helped license over 30,000 megawatts of power production in the state, will share his insights on Florida’s electrical generation transition and greenhouse gas emissions in the past, present, and projected for the future. His projections for the future will contrast what would be expected under a business-as-usual case compared to reductions that would occur under EPA’s recently finalized standards that limit CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants. David Thorley, Director of Air Programs for Waste Management, will explain new methods being developed and used to measure and quantify methane emissions from landfills and EPA’s next round of emission standards. Jeff Koerner, Director of the Florida DEP Division of Air, will share updates related to electric vehicle charging stations, electric school buses, electric transit buses, and other projects related to the VW settlement grants.