The World Economic Forum (WEF) is working with Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Accenture to reduce carbon emissions in industrial areas in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States.
The "Transitioning Industrial Clusters Towards Net Zero" initiative aims to accelerate the deca... Read More »
Highlighting its progress toward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, along with its transition to more sustainable energy sources, Evergy released three stakeholder sustainability reports this week, focused on the events of 2021.
Those reports included Evergy’s 2021 Sustaina... Read More »
One day after clearing the final regulatory hurdle, PPL Corporation closed on its acquisition of Narragansett Electric Company from National Grid.
The deal is valued at approximately $3.8 billion. With the purchase, the Narragansett Electric Company will now be known as Rhode Island Energy, refle... Read More »
Orange and Rockland Utilities (O&R) has invested more than $144 million this year to improve the reliability of its electric system in preparation for peak electricity demands this summer.
O&R, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, provides electric service and natural gas to customers in southeas... Read More »
ComEd has teamed up with the Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Climate Resilience and Decision Science to pursue an expansive Climate Risk and Adaptation Study to understand the future impacts climate-change-induced weather will have on the grid.
The changing climate brings several conce... Read More »
As America’s investor-owned utilities seek to protect their ratepayers by recovering the higher costs associated with ever-increasing severe weather events and unforeseen emergencies like the pandemic, many of the commissions that regulate them know that making utilities bear the brunt of all such... Read More »
A new Clean Power Market Report Q1 2022 released by the American Clean Power Association (ACP) this week trumpeted a record 6.6 GW of utility-scale clean power capacity additions for the United States but warned of slowing growth due to policy blocks and other delays.
“The record-breaking quart... Read More »
PPL Corporation received clearance from the Rhode Island Superior Court this week to buy the Narragansett Electric Co. from National Grid USA.
The approval follows a settlement agreement between PPL and the Rhode Island attorney general's office. The attorney general’s office had appealed an ea... Read More »
Vistra announced this week that it has put the finishing touches on the new 260 MW DeCordova Energy Storage Facility in Granbury, Texas, bringing online the largest energy storage project to date for the ERCOT grid heading into the traditionally blistering Texas summers.
DeCordova was first annou... Read More »
U.S. markets are expected to have sufficient electricity capacity to maintain reliable operations this summer under normal weather conditions, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 2022 summer assessment.
However, FERC notes that extreme weather events could pose operat... Read More »