Customer-owned renewable energy installations increased significantly in Florida last year
Customer-owned renewable generation installations jumped 57 percent in 2018, according to the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC). Florida allows customers to interconnect their systems with the utility’s grid. Since 2008, renewable systems have increased more than 6,400 percent, from 577 ... Read More »Credit: Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Osceola County, Fla. requests end to coal ash disposal at JED landfill
Osceola County commissioners in Florida are urging a waste collector to stop accepting coal ash from Puerto Rico immediately at the collector’s landfill in St. Cloud, despite it having disposed of the material in compliance with state and federal environmental regulations. Power company AES ha... Read More »PG&E creditors propose $30 billion bankruptcy plan
A group of major creditors in Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) said they had put together a reorganization plan that would bring the venerable utility out of bankruptcy by the end of the year while protecting renewable power contracts and buttoning up the company against further exposure to liabili... Read More »Jerry Norcia
DTE Energy board appoints COO Jerry Norcia as CEO
DTE Energy’s board of directors recently appointed DTE President and COO Jerry Norcia its new president and CEO, while appointing current CEO Gerry Anderson into a role as executive board chairman. Norcia was elected to the position on June 23 and will begin his new post on July 1. He has serve... Read More »Nebraska power customers to get electric meter upgrades
Nebraska residents and businesses in Gordon, Hay Spring, Pine Ridge, and Whiteclay will soon receive electric meter upgrades via the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD). The work involving the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) installation will begin July 1 and is expected to be completed ... Read More »Cook Nuclear Plant