Solutions and services company ENGIE Impact announced Wednesday that it had been chosen by GE Renewable Energy to help address efforts to reach a zero-carbon goal by 2020.
The partnership will strive to develop and leverage solutions towards the aggressive goal, including energy efficiency in GE ... Read More »
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released this week a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that revealed findings of significant cybersecurity risk to the United States electric grid.
The report outlined those risks and urged action to fix them. These risks include crimin... Read More »
Leadership of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced a legislative package to promote energy storage.
The package was reported as an amendment to the Better Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Act introduced by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).
“Energy storage technology holds such... Read More »
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has joined the Joint Action Framework on Climate Change (JAFCC).
They join the public utility commissions of California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington on this body. The JAFCC was created to collaborate and share best management practices on ways to addres... Read More »
WASHINGTON – Executives that oversee commercial truck and bus fleets are interested in switching their light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles to electric, but they question if technology or infrastructure can support their businesses.
That was the main sentiments of Steve W. Chriss, director of ... Read More »
Business leaders spoke out about their efforts to combat climate change as part of the UN Climate Action Summit and Climate Week NYC, which took place last week.
“Woven into the fabric of the hosting of the UN Climate Action Summit is the underlying importance of both public and private sect... Read More »
Tech giant Google has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions from its New York City offices by 54 percent from 2011 levels.
The reduction is six years ahead of schedule as Google had targeted 2025 to achieve that level of reduction. The effort is part of the NYC Carbon Challenge, launched in 2013. ... Read More »
Kinder Morgan’s Texas Gulf Coast Express Pipeline Project (GCX) is ahead of schedule and begins full commercial in-service this week, according to a company statement.
The endeavor will deliver natural gas from the Waha area in west Texas to Agua Dulce near the Texas Gulf Coast, providing 2.0 b... Read More »
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) plans to host the fourth installment of its Power Meter policy sessions next week, to cover the current and future role of nuclear energy for the state.
Illinois, which currently has the most nuclear power plants in the United States, relies on these facili... Read More »
The Board of Directors of Idaho Power Company, the wholly-owned electric utility subsidiary of IDACORP, Inc., recently approved several changes to Idaho Power’s executive team, including promoting Lisa A. Grow to president of Idaho Power, effective Oct. 1.
Grow will continue to report to Darre... Read More »