As meteorologists predict major winds, rainfall, storm surge, and accompanying power outages across the Gulf Coast, local utilities are mobilizing thousands of workers to respond to a strengthening Hurricane Zeta expected to make landfall later today in Louisiana and Mississippi.
While it had deg... Read More »
Maine’s Versant Power is distributing roughly $5 million in relief to low-income customers in northern and eastern Maine.
Versant Power, working with the Maine State Housing Authority and the Office of Public Advocate, will ensure all customers who have been deemed eligible for the 2020 federal... Read More »
A bill introduced in Congress this week looks to advance the research and development of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology.
The Carbon Removal, Efficient Agencies, Technology Expertise (CREATE) Act seeks to do this by directing federal agencies to include CDR development as part of their a... Read More »
With a signed letter of intent, AEP Energy Partners has signaled a desire to purchase all 50 MW of energy output from the BQ Energy Development, LLC, developed Columbus Solar Park in Ohio.
The Columbus Solar Park should be operational by December 2022 and bring with it the ability to power appro... Read More »
CenterPoint Energy is taking a unique approach to tackling methane emissions and other potential environmental and safety hazards for natural gas pipelines in Minnesota, with a procedure based on vacuum pump technology.
“A key benefit of vacuum purging is that it helps avoid methane emissions w... Read More »
Having reached its carbon-reduction Paris Agreement objectives five years early, Ameren Corp. has decided to upgrade its carbon emissions plans, going net-zero CO2 company-wide by 2050 and expanding solar and wind generation — goals aimed at essentially transforming the utility into a clean energy... Read More »
A new report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the average energy capacity costs of utility-scale battery storage for the United States has been in a major downward spiral, dropping from $2,152 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in 2015 to $625/kWh in 2018.
That is a nearly 70 perc... Read More »
The Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) gained a new member this week to support its efforts to remove barriers to renewable energy integration, in the form of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
The consortium seeks to identify technology solutions and coordinate effo... Read More »
In response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) began investing in the grid, looking to make it smarter and more resilient in the face of successive storms, an effort the company now says has benefited from $5 billion.
In Wilma's wake, this f... Read More »
Hawaiian Electric is looking to retire its oil-fired generating units at the Kahului Power Plant (KPP) as it transitions to more renewable energy generation sources.
The company filed an application with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to retire oil-fired generating units by 2024. It... Read More »