Duke Energy is providing the technical college system in South Carolina with $1 million in grants to expand training opportunities for utility line workers across the state.
Utility line workers are in demand in the state as thousands of jobs will be open as Duke Energy and other utilities build ... Read More »
Juhl Energy announced last week that it had selected GE Renewable Energy to supply equipment for a 2.0MW solar-wind hybrid power project in Minnesota.
The Minnesota-based energy company says it is the first of its kind in the United States. It will generate energy for the Lake Region Electric Coo... Read More »
New York State launched several initiatives to facilitate the use of electric vehicles.
One of the initiatives is to expand the state’s EVolve NY program, which calls for the installation of public fast-charging stations. The $250 million EVolve program calls for the deployment of up to 200 150... Read More »
Electricity is the most common fuel used for cooking, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey.
The survey found that 74.9 million households – or 63 percent -- use electricity for cooking. Further, 59 percent of households use the same type o... Read More »
The Zero Emission Credit program (ZEC) and application process for nuclear power plants were approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) this week, in an effort to maintain the state’s nuclear energy supply and guarantee funding is properly allocated.
The program was made in re... Read More »
Bechtel and Cheniere Energy officials recently announced a collaboration that resulted in delivering the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Corpus Christi Liquefaction project in Texas.
Officials said Bechtel, which specializes in project management, engineering, procurement, and construc... Read More »
The Wind Solar Alliance (WSA) released a report Monday, titled Customer-Focused and Clean: Power Markets for the Future, which highlights how market rules affect renewable energy and offers recommendations for updating these rules.
“The report demonstrates the numerous ways that existing market... Read More »
The North Carolina Utilities Commission recently approved the proposed combination of Dominion Energy, Inc. and SCANA Corporation.
The approval is the sixth of seven approvals necessary to complete the merger.
SCANA's shareholders, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Georgia Public... Read More »
Penn State’s Department of Architectural Engineering released Monday a new introductory guide for conceiving, developing and financing hybrid fossil fuel and renewable energy systems.
These systems can provide on-site, natural-gas-fueled electric and thermal energy generation in combination wit... Read More »
Bechtel has been selected to work with GE Hitachi to develop the U.S. Department of Energy’s Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a program critically important to the future of advanced nuclear power reactors in the U.S.
The Versatile Test Reactor would conduct irradiation testing for fuels, material... Read More »