American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Jack Gerard recently expressed his support for President Trump’s rollback of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule requiring oil and mining companies to report payments made to foreign governments.
Congress utilized the Congressiona... Read More »
Sandia National Laboratories recently won both the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) national 2017 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the FLC’s State and Local Economic Development Recognition award.
Sandia received the technology transfer award, which recognizes FLC member ... Read More »
Honeywell announced recently that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will use process technology from Honeywell UOP for an integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province that will be the largest crude-to-chemicals complex in China.
Honeywell UOP will provide a ra... Read More »
The Alliance to Save Energy and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) expressed their support recently for the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, an energy efficiency bill that was recently reintroduced by U.S. Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).
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The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) recently released its seventh annual report on the realization of the state’s renewable standard, which found that all Michigan electric providers met or surpassed 2015’s 10 percent requirement.
“The combined efforts of the electric providers, ... Read More »
El Paso Electric (EPE) recently filed a proposal with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the incorporated cities in its service territory to change rates to reflect $444.3 million in infrastructure upgrades the company has completed since March 2015.
EPE constructed new generation... Read More »
The generation mix of the future will be determined by fuel costs and energy policies, the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2017 (AEO2017) showed.
The Clean Power Plan, an Environmental Protection Agency rule issued in 2015, creates incentive to move away fr... Read More »
The Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) recently made two filings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) repeating its appeal for swift action to counteract the effects of the Zero Emission Credit (ZEC) schemes within the New York ISO and PJM Interconnection wholesale markets.
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The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) recently announced that the U.S. solar market grew by 95% in 2016, and nearly doubled last year’s record-breaking 7,493 megawatts (MW) of solar installations.
In 2016, 14,626 MW of solar power was installed in the United States, which marks the indu... Read More »
NV Energy announced this week that the 50-megawatt Boulder Solar II power plant near Las Vegas,
Nevada entered operation and began serving NV Energy customers.
SunPower designed, developed and constructed the plant, as well as the Boulder Solar I resource, which located adjacent to the new pla... Read More »