CenterPoint Energy announced plans to reduce greenhouse emissions in alignment with the Houston Climate Action Plan.
The Houston-based energy company has committed to reducing operational emissions by 70 percent by 2035 and emissions from natural gas within the residential and commercial sectors ... Read More »
The Energy Futures Initiative (EFI) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) have launched an initiative that seeks to create a framework for a 21st century energy system that creates jobs and addresses the climate crisis.
The initiative – called t... Read More »
While U.S. mitigation efforts may be slowly flattening the curve of COVID-19, they have also resulted in the lowest U.S. petroleum oil consumption in decades, as shown by the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
This has been caused by a mix of limited... Read More »
Electric co-ops could lose as much as $10 billion in revenue, new research by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) showed this week, as senators rush to guarantee rural co-ops have access to small business funding secured by the Paycheck Protection Program.
The revenue loss... Read More »
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) recently opened six new solar energy centers with four more scheduled to launch in May.
These 10 new solar centers represent 745 megawatts solar capacity, which is enough to power 150,000 homes. It is part of the company’s commitment to installing 30 million... Read More »
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) released a report that provides guidelines on how state regulators should review proposals for investments in smart grid technologies.
The report, called Smart Grid Interoperability: Prompts for State Regulators to Engage Utili... Read More »
In Illinois, Avangrid Renewables, LLC, has contracted the 158-megawatt Otter Creek Wind Farm to T-Mobile US, Inc. as of this week, bundling the agreement with a purchase of national renewable energy credits.
The farm, which opened on March 1, is expected to generate more than 504,100 MW hours ann... Read More »
The first wind turbines will soon be coming to federal waters, with news from Dominion Energy and Ørsted this week that necessary components and monopiles for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project have shipped from Germany and Denmark.
Despite the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, Domi... Read More »
Wednesday marks a half-century since Earth Day was launched in 1970, and the U.S. electric power industry is taking the opportunity to spotlight the concerted collective efforts that have raised energy efficiency and expanded the use of renewable energy while also cutting the emissions of greenhouse... Read More »
The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) voiced its support for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decision to defer the implementation of several Reliability Standards.
These standards all have effective dates that are scheduled to take place in the second half of 2020. D... Read More »