Spoiler alert! Answers to this month’s crossword puzzle, Clean Power Puzzle, on page 27 in April 2016's Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Across
1. reliable critic: nerc
2. more with building block four: efficiency
6. assessment: ea
7. incentive program: ceip
8. more with building block three: renewables
10. skeptical judges: supreme
14. more with building block two: gas
15. not changing the ___: climate
18. first letter of CPP: ce
20. it’s up to each ___: state
21. EPA’s favorite word selling CPP: flexibility
23. state target: goal
24. ___ coal generation to gas: shift
25. MATS case lead plaintiff: michigan
27. war on ___: coal
28. not mass-based: rate
29. path to 2030: glide
30. state standards: rps
31. best diet system: bser
33. where to read CPP: cfr
34. ___ cost of carbon: social
35. efficient gas-fired plant: ngcc
36. skeptical commissioners: ferc
37. continuous stack meter: cems
Down
1. baseload that gets no respect: nuclear
3. state takes a pass: fip
4. 111(b): new
5. 1970 act: caa
9. environmental ___: justice
11. McCarthy’s agency: epa
12. regulated plant: egu
13. one ___ (d): eleven
16. Supremes said: stay
17. head start action: early
19. not new plants: existing
21. disliked fuels: fossil
22. plants that get hot: thermal
25. not rate-based: mass
26. lower with building block one: heat
27. emissions hurt planet: carbon
31. four for building, but now three: block
32. cap & trade in northeast: rggi
33. combined ___: cycle
37. like fric & frac, ___ & trade: cap
Each month’s issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly now has a crossword puzzle. The April 2016's was called Clean Power Puzzle, with the answers above.
May 2016's puzzle will be called Utilities’ Name Game. June 2016's puzzle will be called Puzzling Rate Design. March 2016's puzzle was called FERC Fun.
Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly
E-mail me: mitnick@fortnightly.com
