Several national groups on June 15 filed comments in support of the New England Ratepayers Association’s (NERA) legal challenge of full net metering transactions.
NERA in April filed a petition requesting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) “declare that there is exclusive federal... Read More »
Minnesota Power recently announces plans invest approximately $40 million into three solar projects that will yield 20 megawatts of arrays in northern Minnesota and triple the company’s solar energy portfolio.
That is, of course, if the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) signs off on... Read More »
Thanks to investments from Energy Impact Partners, Piva, Salesforce Ventures, and National Grid Partners, Urbint has raised $20 million to further technology capable of predicting and preventing threats to energy infrastructure and worker safety.
“A few years ago, we saw that utilities were fac... Read More »
Entergy New Orleans reached a milestone this week as the 100th customer signed up to participate in the ReNEWable Orleans Residential Rooftop Solar Program.
This program allows low-income customers to have solar panels installed on their homes while receiving a $30 credit on their energy bills ea... Read More »
Sunrun, a leading home solar and battery storage company, is working on solar energy storage projects with both Orange & Rockland (O&R) Utilities and Southern California Energy (SCE).
O&R recently got approval to deploy rooftop solar and battery systems as part of a virtual power plant project in... Read More »
The Cybersecurity Advisory Team for State Solar (CATSS) formed this week as part of a joint effort on behalf of the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) to reduce cybersecurity risks to solar energy developmen... Read More »
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee conducted a hearing to look at how COVID-19 has affected the energy industry.
Ranking member Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) discussed how his bill, the American Energy Innovation Act can help revitalize the energy sector. The American Energy Innova... Read More »
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced plans to develop New Jersey Wind Port, an infrastructure investment that will provide a location for essential staging, assembly, and manufacturing activities related to offshore wind projects on the East Coast.
The Wind Port has the potential to create up t... Read More »
Reckoning with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia Power has offered customers with past-due account balances the option of a special payment plan, granting them the ability to pay the company back over six months and still avoid late fees.
Customers must enroll to take advantage of the plan, ... Read More »
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) rallied behind efforts to expand and upgrade the nation’s transmission network this week, creating the Macro Grid Initiative to drive support.
The new organization is built on the notion that a moderni... Read More »