General Motors (GM) will invest in 500,000 megawatt hours of solar energy from DTE Energy as part of DTE’s MIGreenPower program.
The MIGreenPower program is available to all DTE customers who want to boost their percentage of wind and solar energy operations. GM’s investment should deliver e... Read More »
In a pair of new publications from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) meant for utility regulators, essential resources regarding resilience and the recovery capabilities of distributed energy resources (DER) were gathered for easy reference.
"As utilities, cust... Read More »
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) announced an approximate $51 million that will be available for electric transmission network upgrades in northeastern DeKalb County, Ind., next year.
The upgrades are expected to be completed in Fall 2022.
The announcement, issued this week, can be broken down int... Read More »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) provided an update to state officials on its actions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee and staff officials informed National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the National Association of State Energy ... Read More »
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved several measures to mitigate the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income residents of the state.
“As the world deals with an unprecedented array of challenges, we are working closely with industry participants, consumer advocates, ... Read More »
Last year, wind power was responsible for more than a third (39 percent) of new utility-scale power additions in the United States, with another 9.1 gigawatts of construction leading to a total operating wind power capacity of more than 105 GW.
Those figures, released this week in the Wind Powers... Read More »
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, is seeking interested industry partners to develop or demonstrate advanced construction technologies and processes that could transform nuclear energy system project economics and schedule success.
“Construction costs and schedule risks are predominant factors dri... Read More »
Ameren Corp., a Fortune 500 investor-owned energy company providing services to some 2.4 million electric customers and 900,000 natural gas customers in Illinois and Missouri, recently signed a letter of intent to lease 900 megahertz (MHz) broadband spectrum to deploy a private LTE network that will... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow emergency responders and utilities to continue to have priority usage of the 6 Gigahertz (GHz) spectrum band.
Murkowski’s plea comes after FCC officials published a draft rule April 1, allowing unlice... Read More »
Petroleum demand dropped 4.6 percent in the United States in March to 19.4 million barrels per day (mb/d), according to data from the American Petroleum Institute’s March 2020 Monthly Statistical Report.
The decline is largely due to the stay-at-home orders throughout the country to slow the sp... Read More »