Working around the clock to restore power to people in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi impacted by the destructive rampage of Hurricane Laura last week, electric company crews have restored power to nearly 63 percent of customers as of Monday, but some 367,000 remain without power.
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Southern California Edison (SCE) has urged the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to increase the revenue it can recover for its plan to expand its charging network for electric vehicles (EV) from the $15,000 per unit proposed by the CPUC to $16,800 per unit.
Edison this month filed fo... Read More »
Central Hudson Gas & Electric is working on establishing a new rate plan for next year, effective July 1, 2021.
A new plan is required to continue critical investments to modernize and enhance the region’s energy infrastructure while meeting New York State’s environmental goals. If approved ... Read More »
U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), along with lawmakers, environmental and labor leaders, are calling on the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) to designate final Wind Energy Areas in the New York Bight and hold new lease auctions before the end of 2020.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), ... Read More »
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) released a draft order last week requiring regulated public utilities to submit plans for electric vehicle (EV) pilot programs and is seeking comments.
The draft order would require utilities with more than 100,000 customers to submit plans for at ... Read More »
Exelon Generation announced plans last week that will result in the retirement of the Byron and Dresden Generations Stations in Illinois decades ahead of schedule, citing market rules that favor polluting plants over nuclear energy.
While Dresden is licensed to operate for another 10 years and By... Read More »
Tampa Electric has started to implement its Storm Protection Plan to strengthen the electric system to better withstand hurricanes and other extreme weather events.
The Storm Protection Plan is designed to have fewer and shorter outages after extreme weather events. Work is now underway on some a... Read More »
Dominion Energy South Carolina has begun construction on a 6-megawatt solar facility in Bamberg County, S.C.
The Denmark Solar facility will go live in the fourth quarter of this year. It is one of three arrays an affiliate of Dominion Energy has acquired that have long-term power purchase agree... Read More »
In an effort to counter climate change and air pollution, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $7.1 million this week for three vehicular research and development projects assisted by Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas).
Those projects are meant to advance zero and near-zero e... Read More »
A 9-megawatt battery system -- the largest in North Carolina -- is now operating alongside a Duke Energy substation in the city of Asheville, as support for the area’s electric system.
“Energy storage will play a significant role in how we deliver energy to customers now and into the future a... Read More »