As part of its Your Energy, Your Future initiative, NiSource Inc. subsidiary NIPSCO announced intentions last week to build two solar farms in central Indiana.
Under 20-year purchase power agreements, the company says the twin projects will further its transition to cleaner energy resources that ... Read More »
The nation’s utilities have made it through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic relatively unscathed so far, but state regulators were warned that the economy remains in a state of flux and will not be back to business as usual in the near term.
Regulators and the industry will have to work together ... Read More »
DEI discusses a recent survey by WalletHub that ranks each U.S. state according to energy costs for consumers. Find out which states are saving the most money on energy, which are spending the most, and why some regions of the country fare better than others.
Listen to "DEI #3 - The Most (and Lea... Read More »
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched several clean transportation initiatives last week.
One of them is the EV Make-Ready Program, which creates a cost-sharing program that incentivizes utilities and charging station developers to site electric vehicle charging infrastructure in places that will ... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $139 million in funding for 55 projects that support advanced vehicle technologies.
The projects, funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), will research advanced batteries, elect... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking information from the energy industry on best practices for identifying and alleviating risks to the bulk-power system. Still, U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Jim Risch (R-ID) are encouraging it to specifically engage with vendors and manufacturers.
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National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) and University of Miami researchers have developed a digital tool that simulates risks of offshore oil production, and the tool has proven popular enough to be used by six research groups from around the world.
The tool -- the Climatological Isolation and Att... Read More »
As electric utilities prepare to support an approximately 11 percent increase in total U.S. electricity consumption predicted to occur by 2040, the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) is facilitating the sharing of best practices and strategies for improving EV charging infrastructure and deepening... Read More »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on July 16 unanimously dismissed a net metering petition from the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) requesting that FERC have sole jurisdiction over behind-the-meter solar generation, in turn giving more authority to the commission while taking... Read More »
Natural gas utilities invested $1.47 billion -- or $3.8 million per day -- in energy efficiency programs in 2018, according to a new report by the American Gas Association (AGA).
These investments avoided 2.25 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2018, the report said.
“The programs and... Read More »