While electric vehicles are a move toward cleaner transportation, an outstanding issue remains the question of how best to recycle the battery packs that power them -- but now, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed an automated disassembly system for spent batteries.
The advantages of s... Read More »
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a plan to build a 414-megawatt wind facility proposed by Plum Creek Wind, LLC.
The project will be located in portions of Cottonwood, Murray, and Redwood counties in Minnesota. This wind facility will consist of up to 74 turbines and inclu... Read More »
Researchers at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Princeton University recently completed a study to show how large-scale emissions reductions policies and programs can drive lasting reductions in carbon dioxide.
Among the key findings, the research showed that implementing an emissions re... Read More »
As part of the Biden administration’s larger emissions reduction push, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) authorized $82.6 million in funding awards for 44 projects working on energy efficient building technologies, thermal energy storage, lighting, heating, and more.
The projects are spread... Read More »
This winter, the United States could find itself with less natural gas inventory for heating than normal, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August 2021 Short-Term Energy Outlook.
According to the EIA’s predictions, natural gas inventories will be a full 159 billion cu... Read More »
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) will sell its 6,750-megawatt fossil generating portfolio to ArcLight Capital Partners.
Specifically, the portfolio will be sold to newly formed subsidiaries of ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VII for approximately $1.92 billion. The deal is expected to be comp... Read More »
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) commended the Senate for passing the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill but added that it falls short in some areas for its members, state utility regulators.
“We understand and certainly appreciate the importance of protecting... Read More »
Crediting its residential electric customer recycling program, Dominion Energy announced that as of last week, it has successfully recycled 20,000 full-size appliances, a total of more than 2.4 million pounds of metal, plastic, and glass that would have otherwise ended up in landfills.
The progra... Read More »
Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) achieved a major milestone last week in its work on the world’s largest solar-powered battery, installing the first of its more than 50,000 battery modules and bringing the project itself to three-fourths completion.
“With one milestone after another, FP... Read More »
A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a warning that many of the observed climate changes -- unprecedented in thousands of years – are already set in motion, but some can still be reversed.
The IPCC report points out that strong and sustained reductions in ... Read More »