Florida-based Gulf Power officials said the utility’s effort to install more smart grid devices would help reduce outage times for customers.
The automated lateral switch (ALS) devices are installed on power poles to detect power outages. They can also help improve the energy grid’s ability t... Read More »
The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a battery storage project earlier this month, which aims to bring a 316-megawatt facility to the Ravenswood Generating Station in New York’s Long Island City.
If necessary, that level of storage could sustain more than 250,000 homes f... Read More »
Southern Power acquired the 136-megawatt Skookumchuck Wind Facility in Washington State from Renewable Energy Systems.
The wind farm is located in Lewis and Thurston Counties in Washington State. It is Southern Power’s first wind facility in the state and 12th wind project in the United States.... Read More »
ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. was awarded the lease of Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s Saint James Marine Terminal and Bayou Choctaw Pipeline, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy announced.
The 20-year lease agreement will go into effect Jan. 1, 2020. ExxonMobil will be responsibl... Read More »
Representatives from the clean energy industry testified Tuesday to the dramatic expansion of wind and solar-powered projects and the accompanying need for additional workers to fuel the fast-growing sector.
Speaking before the U.S. House Small Business Subcommittee on Innovation and Workforce De... Read More »
A proposed bill in Pennsylvania to expand the state’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure, legislation that drew support from a number of clean energy advocates, is expected to be discussed by a state Senate committee this week.
The Pennsylvania Clean Transportation Infrastructure Act, Sen... Read More »
Dominion Energy, Inc. recently announced that it acquired from First Solar a 72-megawatt solar facility that is under construction in Beaufort County, S.C.
The facility, Seabrook Solar, is owned by the company's contracted generation arm and will provide power and renewable energy attributes unde... Read More »
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) President Nick Wagner recently appointed Commissioner Sarah Freeman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) as chair of the Subcommittee on Education and Research.
“It is my great pleasure to appoint Commissioner Sarah... Read More »
Appalachian Power is in the process of upgrading the electric transmission network for its customers in Central Virginia.
The multi-year Central Virginia Transmission Reliability Project will retire aging equipment and increase grid reliability.
“The Central Virginia Transmission Reliabilit... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are teaming up to develop technologies that will advance energy and manufacturing in rural and agricultural communities.
The two departments have established five interagency working groups to promote the effort to ... Read More »