Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids (IONICS) received $37 million on Tuesday from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (DARPA-E) to fund 16 new research projects to overcome the limitations of current battery and fuel cell technology.
The IONI... Read More »
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) announced on Monday that Senior Director of ERO Enterprise Operations and Strategic Planning Andrea Koch had been named NERC’s senior director for reliability assurance.
Koch will take responsibility for the monitoring and supervision o... Read More »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a request for comment on Wednesday in relation to the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor nuclear power plant’s request for a partial site release and license termination plan.
The license termination plan revealed current site radiological informatio... Read More »
Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to modernize the power grid by way of clean, reliable energy that relies on a large range of collective energy resources, the company announced in a white paper on Tuesday.
The white paper, “The Emerging Clean Energy Economy: Customer-Driven. Modernized. R... Read More »
With the expiration of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) volatility control season restrictions on Thursday, gasoline retailers will be permitted to sell E15 to conventional vehicles produced after 2000 without being required to purchase specially-tailored gasoline blendstock in orde... Read More »
American Electric Power (AEP) sold four power plants to joint venture partners Blackstone and ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, on Wednesday, in a $2.17 billion agreement for the operation and ownership of the 5,200-megawatt (MW) facilities.
The agreement included two natural gas power plants in O... Read More »
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) recently announced the launch of its pioneering solar photovoltaic (PV) recycling program, taking steps to ensure that PV panels end their lifespan in a recycling program rather than a landfill.
“Our goal is make the entire solar industry landfill-... Read More »
Seven renewable energy projects were contracted by Pacific Power on Monday in order to obtain the renewable attributes of those projects and subsequently meet the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) set by Oregon, Washington and California.
Of the seven projects, four are new solar projects locat... Read More »
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) published its annual net metering and solar program report on Monday, showing that the net metering program has been successful in encouraging the development of onsite renewable energy electric generation projects, which in turn has lowered electric bil... Read More »
The House of Representative unanimously passed the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016, H.R. 4979, on Monday to require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to enhance advanced nuclear regulatory framework.
The legislation, proposed by U.S. Reps. Bob Latta (R-OH) and Jerry Mc... Read More »