The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide about $64 million in federal funding for research and development projects on innovative coal plants.
The funding opportunity is called Critical Components for Coal FIRST Power Plants of the Future. The DOE’s Coal FIRST initiative – which stan... Read More »
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) said Monday that it is launching a new approval process for customers looking to connect renewable distributed generation projects to the grid to ensure grid reliability and public safety.
Electric consumers, developers, and contractors investing in a DG proj... Read More »
The closing near-month natural gas futures price at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) on Feb. 10 was the lowest since March 8, 2016, and the lowest February closing price for the near-month contract since at least 2001, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said recently.
On Fe... Read More »
The Virginia House of Delegates earlier this month voted to push off consideration of a controversial deregulation policy proposal until 2021.
The House voted Feb. 4 to reconsider the electric utility regulation and retail customer choice bill — initially House Bill (HB) 206, which now has been... Read More »
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) will manage the DOE’s program to accelerate the development of energy storage technologies.
“We are excited and well-positioned to serve in this critical role on behalf of DOE,” Br... Read More »
Appalachian Power will hold a series of open houses for the Joshua Fall –Gladstone phase of the Central Virginia Transmission Reliability Project.
The Joshua Falls–Gladstone phase involves building about 15 miles of transmission line and improving four substations in Amherst, Appomattox, Camp... Read More »
Hawaiian Electric announced Feb. 13 that two of its engineers received Technology Transfer Awards from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for their achievements in collaborative research and development projects.
“The 2019 Technology Transfer Award recipients lead by example, elevatin... Read More »
Dominion Energy said Feb. 13 that it would add a new 100 megawatt (MW) solar facility in Greensville County, Va., which will support Facebook’s operations.
The Virginia State Corporation Commission approved the Sadler Solar project on Jan. 22, 2020, and Dominion expects the project to begin ope... Read More »
The political heat has been turned up at the state level on the increasingly contentious debate over California’s possible takeover of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), after a California lawmaker announced a new bill that would get the ball rolling on turning the state’s largest investor-owned uti... Read More »
Portland General Electric struck a deal with Avangrid Renewables to purchase power from a new 162-megawatt solar generation facility in Oregon.
The solar facility – which will be the largest in the state – is being developed in eastern Oregon. It will supply power and the renewable energy cre... Read More »