NV Energy, Nevada’s largest electric utility, said on Thursday it will add more than 1,000 megawatts of solar energy and for the first time plans to ask regulators to approve a major battery energy storage system in the largest renewable energy investment in the state’s history.
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) has approved Piedmont Natural Gas rate change requests for integrity management rider (IMR) and benchmark commodity cost of natural gas components of its billing rate, which is expected to lower monthly residential rates by $1.
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Rocky Mountain Power has opened a request for proposal (RFP) to the people of Utah, compiling competitive bids for new renewable energy projects to interconnect their PacifiCorp system.
The cost-competitive bids can include solar, wind, and geothermal projects and will be used for 308,000-megawat... Read More »
Executives from NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy Arkansas, along with state and local leaders, celebrated the commissioning of the Stuttgart Solar Energy Center, Arkansas’ largest universal solar energy project, on Tuesday.
The facility located on 475 acres approximately seven miles southea... Read More »
The Government of Canada has agreed to purchase the Trans Mountain Pipeline system and expansion project (TMEP) from Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) for approximately $3.4 billion in a deal expected to be finalized later this year, the company announced on Tuesday.
The government has agreed to fund on... Read More »
In a report published Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) develop a workforce plan for interstate pipeline inspections.
PHMSA, an agency within the Department of Transportation (DOT), oversees... Read More »
Gulf Power said Tuesday that its crews had restored power within 12 hours to 11,719 of the 460,000 customers who lost electricity during Tropical Storm Alberto, which made landfall in Laguna Beach, Florida, on Monday.
“We were closely monitoring every movement of the storm, and as soon as we kn... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy finally kicked-off two new clean energy initiatives, the Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future (NICE Future) and the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS), at the Ninth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM9) held last week in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a study to chart how energy storage could enhance grid operations and the factors affecting its deployment, and along the way, determined it could reduce costs and buoy generation, transmission, and distribution efforts alike.
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Fossil fuel consumption in the electric power sector fell to 22.5 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2017, the lowest level since 1994, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Power sector petroleum consumption in 2017 was the lowest on record, based on data since... Read More »