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New Jersey to evaluate best strategy to achieve clean energy goals at lowest cost
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) is evaluating alternatives to participating in the regional capacity market administered by PJM Interconnection so that it can best achieve its clean energy goals while keeping consumer costs as low as possible. The investigation follows a Decembe... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_1405796450-300x200.jpg)
DOE will award up to $15M for energy technology on tribal lands
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $15 million to deploy energy technology on tribal lands. The funding, which comes through the DOE’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, will be used to support Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Village Corporati... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_764274979-1-300x149.jpg)
Hawaiian Electric to host virtual community meetings for five battery energy storage projects
Hawaiian Electric has proposed the creation of five battery energy storage systems (BESS) and will host a series of virtual meetings to gather community input. Presently, projections put a 40-megawatt facility on Maui, and a pair of facilities each on Oahu and Hawaii Island. The two on Oahu will ... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_1407601499-1-300x200.jpg)
Majority of grid operators have or are developing pandemic response plans
Responding to a North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Level 2 alert, the electricity industry demonstrated this month that the majority of grid operators either have a written pandemic response plan in place to deal with COVID-19 or are working on one. While all involved recogniz... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_583023832-300x200.jpg)
NYSERDA awards five teams in Future Grid Challenge
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced awards in its Future Grid Challenge, which was created to develop solutions to integrate renewable energy into the electric grid. The project teams will help various New York’s utilities, including Central Hudson ... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_176404463-300x201.jpg)
EIA issues report on the nuclear power plants in the United States
Nuclear power generates about 20 percent of electricity generation in the United States, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Overall, 30 U.S. states with operating commercial nuclear power plants. Further, 12 states generated more than 30 percent of their ele... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_100299176-300x200.jpg)
US report shows energy, energy efficiency sectors increased by more than 120,000 new jobs in 2019
A new report released by the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) and the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) this week showed that 2019 brought 120,300 new jobs to the U.S. Energy and Energy Efficiency sectors. The 2020 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) marks the fifth annu... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_118199287-300x200.jpg)
FERC, NARUC urge states to designate utility workers as essential during COVID-19
As part of widening COVID-19 related actions nationwide, both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) have called on state authorities to label utility workers as essential. “Every aspect of responding to the pande... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shutterstock_723855823-300x200.jpg)