Some Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) customers may soon receive a one-time payment to their BGE account in the form of a grant from the State of Maryland.
The grants are being provided to customers who meet certain requirements determined by the state. It is part of the stateʻs $83 million gra... Read More »
U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the INSULATE Buildings Act (S.B. 2066) this week, which would establish grants for states and territories to create loan funds for energy audits and efficiency upgrades.
INSULATE, or Investing in New Strategies for Upgrading Lower... Read More »
A total of six CO2 removal research and development projects focused on advancing direct air capture (DAC) technology were chosen this week to receive $12 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The concept behind DAC is the capability to remove CO2 emissions directly from th... Read More »
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm hosted a roundtable discussion with leaders from the lithium battery industry on how the federal government and private industry can work together to strengthen the domestic lithium battery supply chain.
Lithium-based batteries play an integral role in 21... Read More »
A high number of outages in Texas, combined with potential record electric use, has caused the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to ask residents to reduce electric use as much as possible through June 18.
Generator owners have reported approximately 11,000 MW of generation is on for... Read More »
For the first time, the U.S. solar market surpassed 100 GW of installed generating capacity this week, according to the new U.S. Solar Market Insight Q2 2021 report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.
For reference, that means the industry has more than doubled... Read More »
Amid a concentrated push to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2040, DTE Energy reported this week that its customers will save nearly $400 million over their lifetime energy bills.
Simultaneously, efforts from last year alone will reduce lifetime greenhouse gas ... Read More »
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced last week a proposed sale for offshore wind development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight – an area of shallow waters between Long Island and the New Jersey coast.
This would be the first competitive offshore wind lease sal... Read More »
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) commissioned last week the FPL Discovery Solar Energy Center at Kennedy Space Center.
The center was launched at a ceremony last week, attended by FPL, officials from NASA, as well as state and local officials. The completion of the FPL Discovery Solar Energy ... Read More »
Western Power Distribution (WPD), a U.K. utility business formerly owned by the Pennsylvania-based PPL Corporation, was officially sold to National Grid last week for proceeds of $10.7 billion, as PPL withdrew from the nation to focus on operations in the United States.
After taxes and fees, PPL ... Read More »