Energy Secretary Rick Perry testified to a Senate panel on Tuesday about the Trump administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) budget request for fiscal year 2019, a plan that prioritizes nuclear security while making large cuts to energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
The budget p... Read More »
A group of the nation's largest electric utilities has asked Congress to preserve a tax incentive to support the continued growth in sales of electric vehicles.
The electric vehicle tax credit was enacted nearly a decade ago amid the global financial crisis in an effort to spur the development of... Read More »
A report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has found that solar plants are following what is known as the inverter loading ratio (ILR) and are installing more panel capacity based on their inverter capacity.
This whole concept revolves around the fact that the nation’s solar... Read More »
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Regulatory Information Conference this year highlighted efforts to modernize the agency’s processes and culture, NRC said recently.
“Many of the NRC’s processes and much of our regulatory framework were developed to serve mid-20th century nuc... Read More »
The Energy and Commerce Committee (E&C) recently highlighted the United States’ growing crude oil export levels following the elimination of their ban as part of the 2015 year-end budget deal.
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) report noted that crude oil exports in 2017 wer... Read More »
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) recently sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in coordination with other federal agencies, to take steps to stabilize price volatility in the Renewable Identification Number (RIN) market.
In the RIN market, ... Read More »
To test the safety of transporting spent nuclear fuel to a permanent disposal site, Sandia National Laboratories completed a 14,500-mile trek to gather data on the bumps and jolts spent nuclear fuel experiences during transportation.
The goal of this endeavor was to gather data that could be use... Read More »
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of James (Jim) B. Robb as NERC’s president and CEO, effective April 9.
“The Board is very pleased to have found someone of Jim’s caliber to lead NERC into the future. Choosing a C... Read More »
Florida’s Gulf Power is turning increasingly to wind energy to power its customers, and as the second anniversary of its entrance into that renewable market rolls around, wind energy has supplied enough to power more than 131,000 of its customers’ homes.
“Wind marked a major step forward in... Read More »
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) recently released a joint statement following the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) release of a Notice of Schedule for the environmental review process for the Alaska Liquid Natural Gas (AK LNG) project.
“This schedule is a nec... Read More »