Texas power producers will likely have to make sure their power plants, wind turbines and natural gas pipelines are ready for next winter, but is the state standing by to assist?
As Texas gets back on its feet after February’s wave of power outages, it appears the state’s priorities for the i... Read More »
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm became the 16th U.S. Secretary of Energy this week, following Senate confirmation, and earned accolades from across the energy industry as she stepped into the role.
"EEI and our member companies congratulate Jennifer Granholm on her Senate confirmation to s... Read More »
Xcel Energy Colorado is planning to reduce carbon emissions by 85 percent by 2030, according to its Clean Energy Plan, which is due to be released soon.
The plan calls for doubling the amount of renewable energy and battery storage on the Xcel Energy Colorado system. Specifically, it calls for a... Read More »
Gulf Power is building two new solar energy centers in Northwest Florida that should be up and running by the end of 2021.
The two new solar centers are the Cotton Creek Solar Energy Center in Escambia County and the Blue Springs Solar Energy Center in Jackson County. They are expected to bring a... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy is pushing for further research into whether geothermal systems could provide further carbon-free energy sources, offering up to $46 million to 17 projects through its Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE).
At the heart of this push is enhanc... Read More »
A new report from the Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies (WATT) Coalition, “Unlocking the Queue,” proposes that advanced transmission technologies could more than double the possible development of renewable energy capacity in Kansas and Oklahoma by 2025.
This would be thanks to t... Read More »
Exelon Corp. announced this week that it intends to separate Exelon Utilities and Exelon Generation into two publicly traded companies.
“Our industry is changing at a rapid pace and our customers expect us to continuously innovate to stay ahead of growing demand for clean energy, evolving busi... Read More »
The CEOs of 17 leading renewable energy companies are calling on President Joe Biden to rescind the Trump Administration’s October 2020 solar proclamation, which increased tariffs on solar panels and rescinded the exclusion for bifacial solar panels.
In a letter to Biden, the CEOs pointed out h... Read More »
The Public Service Commission recently approved Duke Energy’s Green Source Advantage program of South Carolina.
This approval enables the company to expand renewable energy options for large customers, offering them the flexibility of selecting and negotiating all price terms directly with a r... Read More »
Recognizing the threat that cyberattacks pose to critical modern infrastructure such as the electric grid, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) RADICS program has set about developing technologies to rapidly recover from such attacks and provide a testbed for program evaluations.
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