Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) set up three new funding opportunities for the research and development of hydropower energy, allocating $28 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
According to official DOE figures, hydropower presently accounts for 31.5 percent of domest... Read More »
Tampa Electric is planning to add another 375 MW of solar power at six sites by the end of 2025, the company announced last week.
When the work is completed, Tampa Electric will have more than 1,600 MW of solar power – enough to power nearly 260,000 homes.
“During this time when volatile... Read More »
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone agreed to a land transfer that will bring a National Offshore Wind Training Center to New York.
In the deal, Suffolk County purchased the state-owned parcel located in Brentwood for $1.46 million to create a community-centered... Read More »
In support of a $5 million research project determined to improve the efficiency of and cut costs for extreme fast charging for electric vehicles (EVs), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week awarded a $200,000 grant to partners ComEd and North Carolina State University.
Working with the u... Read More »
Thanks to funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) recently launched the new Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance (RMUC) program to boost rural electric utilities’ security.
Last week, the departmen... Read More »
California’s investor-owned utilities (IOU) told state regulators that an unintended consequence of turning entire communities into microgrids would be to exempt often-affluent neighborhoods from paying their fair share of the costs of maintaining the statewide grid while also providing financial ... Read More »
Entergy Texas and New Fortress Energy will collaborate on the development of a green hydrogen project in Southeast Texas.
As part of the agreement, Entergy Texas will work with New Fortress Energy (NFE) to construct a new substation and transformer connections on the site of NFE’s 120-megawatt ... Read More »
In a push to jumpstart the manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles and the larger electric grid, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week awarded the first set of 20 projects $2.8 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure law.
These corporate efforts span 12 states and include meas... Read More »
With the snip of a ribbon, construction ended at the 1.6 MW Jean Duluth Solar project in Duluth, Minn., this week, marking the completion of the first of three new solar efforts advanced by Minnesota Power.
The three projects will provide more than 20 MW of power, or about 2,500 MW hours, to the... Read More »
Dominion Energy Virginia has acquired the Shands Energy Storage project in Sussex County from East Point Energy.
The 15.7 megawatts(MW)/62.8 megawatt-hours (MWh) Shands project will be one of the largest standalone storage projects in Virginia when it becomes operational in 2023.
“Dominion ... Read More »