Pushing forward with green efforts, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the opportunity of his State of the State address to announce a new plan for energy efficiency targets and appliance standards, putting state departments to work.
Both the Department of Public Service and the New York State Energ... Read More »
The Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) Commercial and Industrial Working Group released Wednesday two documents designed to motivate investment in commercial solar projects.
SEIA released a contract that combines aspects of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Property Assessed Clea... Read More »
The Department of Energy (DoE) awarded a total of $30 million to six projects on Wednesday that will help promote research and development of unconventional oil and natural gas recovery.
The funds will be administered by the Office of Fossil Energy’s Advanced Technology Solutions for Unconvent... Read More »
Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) announced Wednesday that they plan to request approval from the Kentucky Public Service Commission of a “Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity” to install 1.3 million advanced meters across their service ter... Read More »
Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) announced Wednesday the power line route for the Wind Catcher Energy Connection project with the exception of three portions that the company will seek further public input on before finalizing.
The route will run approximately 360 miles and follows a mor... Read More »
American Midstream Partners, LP (AMID) announced Wednesday the completion and commencement of deliveries on the previously announced Cayenne Pipeline, a joint venture between AMID and Targa Resources Corp.
Initially, Cayenne will have 40,000 barrels per day of Y-grade NGL transport capacity and ... Read More »
Con Edison, which provides electric, gas, and steam service to 3.4 million customers in New York, reported ending 2017 with a personal record--1.3 million dekatherms of gas distributed over the course of New Year’s Eve alone, to combat the icy winter.
It was not their only end of year record, e... Read More »
Sandia National Laboratories and Montana Tech University recently demonstrated a control system that smooths out inter-area oscillations, which can be a problem when demand for power is high.
When electricity travels long distances, the standard frequency of 60 cycles per second on the utility s... Read More »
Window panes that use engineered quantum dots to split and absorb different parts of the solar spectrum can be used to help reduce solar electricity costs, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory announced on Tuesday.
Researchers pioneered a double-pane window architecture that incorporate... Read More »
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced that it plans to demonstrate over the coming months in Cordova, Alaska a system of microgrids that can maintain and restore power after an outage event.
INL researchers, along with a coalition of partners, designed the system to enhance grid resilience a... Read More »