In response to a law passed in 2016, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last week issued a staff proposal exploring how the state’s largest natural gas storage facility – the Aliso Canyon facility owned by Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) – could be replaced.
The st... Read More »
Together, Capital Power Corporation and Manulife Investment Management secured a 100 percent interest in and subsequent acquisition of the 1,633 megawatt Midland Cogeneration Venture facility and its owner, the MCV Holding Company.
Midland Cogen is a natural gas combined cycle cogeneration faci... Read More »
More than a dozen countries last week collectively committed $94 billion to be used for clean energy demonstration projects, and the United States pledged billions more to make the international clean energy transition a reality.
Announced by a group of 16 countries during the first-ever Global C... Read More »
A new regional transmission project is coming to North Dakota, as Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. and Otter Tail Power Co. joined forces last week on the announcement of the upcoming Jamestown-Ellendale 345 kV transmission line across North Dakota.
In all, the transmission line will span 95 miles, b... Read More »
A new collaboration between the Argonne National Laboratory and Constellation Energy Corporation seeks to address climate change by analyzing and developing new carbon-free power generation technologies in the nuclear-hydrogen realm.
Through a six-year partnership, the pair will analyze the U.S. ... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun the application process for its $7 billion program to create regional hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) across the country.
The H2Hub program, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will be one of the largest investments in DOE history.
Hydrogen is a ... Read More »
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) issued a report identifying the amount of electrical system investment required to meet New York State’s long-term climate policy requirements.
NYISO’s 2021-2040 System & Resource Outlook, developed in collaboration with stakeholders and state ... Read More »
United States power companies are leading the clean energy transformation by reducing emissions, deploying clean resources, and developing new technologies — actions that stakeholders say make this sector the centerpiece of decarbonization and provide opportunities to increase collaboration with i... Read More »
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order Wednesday increasing his state’s offshore wind goal by nearly 50 percent.
The new goal, 11,000 MW by 2040, ups the current goal of 7,500 MW. Murphy also directed the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to study the feasibility of increasin... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022, a permitting reform bill designed to streamline the process for authorizations and reviews of energy and natural resources projects.
Among the provisions in the bill, it sets a two-year target for National ... Read More »