Thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 559 in November 2019, Duke Energy announced last week that it was able to securitize the $300 million in repair costs caused by storms in North Carolina in 2018 and 2019, allowing customers to get those costs back beginning this December.
The arrival of this b... Read More »
Work finished on a 54 MW wind energy project from BHE Renewables last week, and it will provide a new source of power for the Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) for the next 20 years.
That arrangement is thanks to a 20-year power purchase agreement. This will be supplied through 20 wind turbi... Read More »
Amazon has announced 18 new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the United States, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, to power its properties in those nations.
Overall, the new projects represent 2 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy capacity. When combined with the projects anno... Read More »
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) released its Comprehensive Reliability Plan (CRP), which concludes that the New York State bulk power system will meet system demands and reliability criteria from 2021 through 2030 in normal weather conditions.
However, the report points out that ... Read More »
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) approved Minnesota Power’s interim rate request for 2022.
Starting Jan. 1, 2022, rates increase by approximately 7 percent for residential customers and approximately 14 percent for all other customers, effective Jan. 1, 2022. In different terms,... Read More »
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) approved El Paso Electric’s (EPE) plan to invest more than $1.2 million in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and outreach across its Southern New Mexico service territory.
EPE filed the Transportation and Electrification Plan (TEP) with the... Read More »
Going beyond its current clean energy offers, Idaho Power last week proposed allowing its customers to purchase any of three different program options to purchase additional renewable energy and get themselves to fully green households.
The Clean Energy Your Way proposal, filed with the Idaho Pub... Read More »
Lower cost renewable energy and reduced grid congestion will follow last week’s completion of the Huntley-Wilmarth 345 kilovolt project in southern Minnesota, following five years of joint efforts between Xcel Energy and ITC Midwest.
Most of that time was spent on planning. Construction began l... Read More »
ComEd earned approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to increase its rates by $46 million -- its first electric delivery rate increase in four years -- to cover a mix of reliability investments and efforts to transition to cleaner, renewable energy.
Beginning in January 2022, the ave... Read More »
NV Energy got approval from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission to invest $100 million in infrastructure for electric cars and trucks over the next three years.
NV Energy plans to increase the availability of public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations along major travel corridors and at k... Read More »