LIHEAP to help record 1.2 million households pay for cooling this year
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is projected to help some 1.2 million poor households pay their cooling bills this summer, shattering the record for the most families the program has helped annually, and leaping 46 percent over 2020 figures. The news was reported from the N... Read More »U.S. solar panel shipments up 33% in 2020
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), shipments of solar photovoltaic modules, also known as solar panels, reached a record high of 21.8 million peak kilowatts in 2020, a 33 percent increase over 2019. Solar panel shipments include imports, exports and modules produced a... Read More »Credit: Entergy
Entergy restores power to 60 percent of customers one week post-Ida
More than a week since Hurricane Ida came ashore in Louisiana as one of the strongest storms to ever strike the United States, Entergy reported early Tuesday that power has been restored to 60 percent of the 948,000 total customers who lost electricity. At the peak of storm damage, 697,000 outage... Read More »DTE to invest $70 million to counter storm-caused outages
Faced with increasingly extreme weather across the country and the state of Michigan, DTE Energy announced last week that it would invest $70 million into reliability improvements to counter storm-caused outages without affected customer bills. “We tripled our tree trimming effort and doubled o... Read More »PNNL researchers create affordable means of converting captured CO2 into methane
Researchers at the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have successfully developed a streamlined method of converting captured CO2 into methane, reducing the materials and energy needed, and potentially, the cost. The result could be more affo... Read More »Credit: Otter Tail Power Co.
NorthWestern Energy remains committed to Coyote Generating Station in N.D.
NorthWestern Energy, part owner of the Coyote Generating Station, a coal plant in Beulah, N.D., said it remains committed to the continued operation of the facility. NorthWestern Energy, which owns a 10 percent stake in the plant, said Coyote Generating Station remains a critical generation energ... Read More »Credit: APS