Duke Energy recently announced plans to launch a research and development pilot program in Florida to test and evaluate the potential for Ford F-150 Lightnings to serve as grid resources, thanks to the all-electric trucks’ two-way grid charging capabilities.
While much has been made of the dra... Read More »
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee joined Pascoag Utility District (PUD) and the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources (OER) Tuesday to announce the opening of the state’s first utility scale battery storage facility.
The company said that the battery storage system was installed to increase reliab... Read More »
Toledo Edison, a FirstEnergy Corp. electric company, announced it was wrapping up smart grid upgrades in Lucas County, Ohio, that will minimize service disruptions, particularly during severe weather.
The upgrades include installing new, automated equipment and technology in substations and powe... Read More »
Florida Power & Light Company announced Monday that it is currently simultaneously constructing 16 new solar energy centers across Florida, a company record.
Previously, in the fall of 2020, the company had a peak of 14 simultaneous solar energy center construction projects.
“We are cement... Read More »
More than 30 organizations wrote in support of a strong new planning rule ahead of this week's deadline for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection.
The organizations that... Read More »
Duke Energy and its Foundation announced Monday plans to invest more than $9.6 million in nonprofits and other programs to help those in need in Florida.
The funding will focus on current and new Foundation grants and bill pay assistance programs for low-income customers. The company said the mo... Read More »
With President Joe Biden's signing of the Inflation Reduction Act into law this week, clean energy advocates and industry applauded its provisions and what they will mean for the industry and the domestic economy.
"When taken together with the CHIPS and Science Act and the Infrastructure Investme... Read More »
FirstEnergy Corp. announced Friday it had completed the closure of an ash landfill in Berkeley County, W.V., paving the way to converting the property to a solar facility.
In December 2021, First Energy received approval to convert the R. Paul Smith Power Station, along with others, to a solar f... Read More »
A unique collaboration between Southern California Gas Co. and Ford Motor Company will pursue a new version of the latter’s popular truck line, developing an F-550 Super Duty Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Truck for demonstration under real-world conditions.
As part of the demonstration, a tempor... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) announced it would make available up to $44 million to fund enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) projects.
The funding will support projects that develop and test technology that fosters EGS innov... Read More »