The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing last week to examine the possibility of exporting natural gas from the Piceance Basin in Colorado through the proposed Jordan Cove Energy and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline.
The Mancos Shale deposit in the Piceance Basin was identified by the U... Read More »
The Fiscal Year 2019 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill seeks to include $80 million for the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) and its OMEGA Laser Facility.
Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) said that they would push for this funding ... Read More »
SAN DIEGO – Nearly 200 lineworkers and support personnel from U.S. investor-owned electric companies were honored during a pregame ceremony on Monday at the San Diego Padres vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game here for their work to restore power to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
Approxima... Read More »
Following recent efforts to block funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) applauded a federal court’s decision to dismiss a motion filed by the State of Texas to compel action on the repository.
Heller previously worked to exclude $30 mil... Read More »
A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) assesses the technical characteristics affecting costs of deployment for battery storage systems.
Their assessment is cleaved in two, however, as these systems fall along two different designs: some are meant to provide more insta... Read More »
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) will consider Florida Power & Light’s (FLP) Hurricane Matthew recovery costs, and a proposed settlement between FPL and the Office of Public Counsel, during a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
Florida’s public utilities can recover storm-related costs... Read More »
The Nebraska Public Power District will begin replacing customers electric meters in McCook County this week.
The meter replacement program will run throughout June. Overall, they will replace about 43,000 electric meters in 33 communities in the county.
NPPD’s customer service team will al... Read More »
Duke Energy opened a new 750-megawatt natural gas plant at the W.S. Lee Station in Anderson County, South Carolina.
"Highly efficient natural gas plants – like W.S. Lee – are helping us deliver a cleaner, smarter energy future for our customers," Lynn Good, chairman, president and CEO of Duke... Read More »
A coalition of energy advocates from natural gas, oil, storage, solar and wind sources have denounced a Trump Administration order to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to prepare a plan to bail out coal and nuclear plants throughout the United States.
A draft memo of the plan calls for the subsidi... Read More »
American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Jack Gerard called the Trump administration’s decision to impose steel tariffs on the European Union, Canada, and Mexico “a step in the wrong direction” and said he was “deeply discouraged” by the recent announcement.
President Donal... Read More »