Central Hudson Gas & Electric is implementing a program to assist low-income families and individuals who experienced hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through its Electric & Gas Bill Relief Program, residential utility customers who receive government assistance for utility bills and other ... Read More »
The transition to clean energy presents the power industry with new opportunities to innovate, but the challenge is deploying new technologies and policies quick enough, speakers said on Monday during the Edison Electric Institute’s EEI 2022 annual meeting in Orlando.
According to Micha... Read More »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed two rulemakings that seek to improve the reliability of the bulk power system against extreme weather.
One of the proposed rules would require the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to develop reliability standard modi... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $57.9 million to 30 projects that will help decarbonize the industrial sector and advance clean energy manufacturing.
“Decarbonizing American industry while expanding our capacity to manufacture clean energy technologies is the surest way to meet the ... Read More »
Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a proposed rule to expedite the current process for connecting new electric generation facilities to the grid.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) is intended to address significant backlogs in interconnection queues by improving th... Read More »
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) said its Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) have been engaged and will protect approximately 3 million people living in high fire-risk areas in the company’s service area.
The EPSS technology, which started in 2021, turns off power within one-tenth o... Read More »
On Thursday, ComEd announced it is working with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to install renewable, off-grid streetlighting for two schools on Chicago’s South Side.
The off-grid streetlights feature Remote Power Units – miniature power plants – that are not connected to the electric grid bu... Read More »
The U.S. energy storage market saw the highest capacity for the first quarter on record in 2022, according to the American Clean Powers (ACP) Association’s latest report.
According to the ACP’s U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report released Wednesday, the U.S. energy storage market saw grid-sca... Read More »
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy released its 17th annual Sustainability Report Wednesday, highlighting the company’s commitment to reliable, affordable natural gas and electricity service while protecting the environment.
The company said it has led the clean energy transition since 2005 and was... Read More »
Due to this week’s heat wave, Duke Energy Carolinas customers in North Carolina and South Carolina set a summertime record for electricity usage.
Customers hit 21,086 megawatt-hours of electricity for the hour ending at 6 p.m. on June 13, exceeding the previous summertime record of 20,671 megaw... Read More »