The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) recently approved an agreement under which Entergy Louisiana announced would purchase up to 43 megawatts (MW) of the power generated by the 80-MW Toledo Bend Hydropower plant.
The new five-year power purchase agreement replaces a 50-year contract that... Read More »
Two microgrids were officially activated at the Public Safety Headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md., and Correctional Facility in Boyds, Md., last week, according to Montgomery County, Md., Executive Ike Leggett.
The microgrids are on-site clean power generation systems that allow each of the facilit... Read More »
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will develop two large solar installations in Tennessee and Alabama as part of an agreement with Facebook to support its data center in Huntsville, Ala., with 100 percent renewable energy.
The solar installations will produce 150 and 227 megawatts of solar en... Read More »
At a summit hosted by the Consumer Energy Alliance this week, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry promoted domestic energy production and infrastructure expansion, while noting the country has a real chance to be a net energy exporter in two years.
“We are already energy dominant now,” Perry sai... Read More »
Black Hills Energy recently announced the selection of GRID Alternatives Colorado to build two 2.5-megawatt community solar projects in the City of Pueblo, Colorado.
More than 60 percent of the capacity from the projects will provide cost savings to low-income and affordable housing customers.
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The final two laterals of the Rover Pipeline project, along with the associated compression and metering facilities, recently entered service, Energy Transfer LP said recently.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued approvals last week to commence natural gas service on the Sherw... Read More »
The New York Public Service Commission recently approved a $5 million, three-year natural gas demand response pilot program put forth by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison).
While demand response (DR) programs, which help manage usage during peak demand periods, are relativ... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gave the go-ahead to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project to non-free trade agreement countries over the next two years.
DOE approved the export of 2.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas from the Corpus ... Read More »
Navigant Research has released findings from an effort examining methods utilities can implement to enhance customer relationships.
The report explored strategies utility providers and manufacturers can adopt to bolster the residential aggregation of distributed energy resources (DER) and develop... Read More »
U.S. crude oil production continues to climb, and as of August 2018, it crossed a record-setting 11 million barrels per day.
At a total of 11.3 million barrels per day, production levels beat out even Russian competition, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Primarily, t... Read More »