A recently released report maintains Indiana's climate is key to residents energy demands, as well as its sources.
According to the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment, Indiana residents will heat homes and businesses less but rely more on air conditioning as Indiana’s climate warms, and... Read More »
American Electric Power (AEP) announced this week that it began ground preparation for a new 65,000 square-foot, $16.6 million service center in Pikeville, Ky., to expand its transmission operations in the state.
The new facility, located a few miles from the current Kentucky Power Service Cente... Read More »
Montana-Dakota Utilities, an MDU Resources Group, Inc. subsidiary, announced Tuesday that it plans to retire three coal-fired electric generation units at two location in the next two to three years and build a new simple-cycle natural gas combustion turbine.
The availability of low-cost power d... Read More »
Reciprocating internal combustion engines are increasingly being used in larger utility-scale power generation applications, especially where large amounts of electricity generation from intermittent sources such as wind and solar are used, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said rece... Read More »
Even as the renewable market expands and changes, wind generation continues to helm Michigan’s alternative energy efforts, according to the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) ninth annual report on renewable power.
With 25 utility-scale wind projects currently operating in Michigan,... Read More »
Department of Energy (DOE) officials recently announced the opening of a Battery Recycling Center at Argonne National Laboratory, with the overarching goal of reclaiming and recycling critical energy materials.
The recycling site would focus on cost-effective processes to recover as much economi... Read More »
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently approved the construction of a new wind energy facility, the Dakota Range III, and transmission line to be built in Grant and Roberts counties.
The project will consist of up to 42 wind turbines with a combined capacity of up to 151.2 m... Read More »
The Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) recently opened a working case to assess potential mechanisms for the further development of Missouri’s electric vehicle (EV) charging network.
The PSC directed workshop participants to evaluate three models and noted that participants may also cons... Read More »
Entergy Texas executives and local elected officials attended
last week the groundbreaking of the new Montgomery County Power Station (MCPS)
in Willis, Texas.
The 993-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine plant is
located to the existing Lewis Creek Power Plant in Willis. The facility will
provid... Read More »
Energy waste reduction programs in Michigan have
saved nearly 1.6 million megawatt hours of electricity and about 5.5 billion
cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Michigan Public Service Commission.
The commission’s annual report found that 64 electric
companies spent a total of $220 mi... Read More »