In a move meant to encourage elective vehicle (EV) adoption, a new daytime charging tariff from Arizona Public Service Company (APS) was approved by regulators at the Arizona Corporation Commission this week.
The move sets up two schedule slots: off-peak and on-peak hours. Off-peak hours run from... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces a $350 million funding opportunity for emerging long-duration energy storage (LDES) demonstration projects.
LDES projects are those that are capable of delivering electricity for 10 to 24 hours or longer to support a carbon-free electric grid when ene... Read More »
When it comes to measuring utility performance, data should analyze outcomes rather than actions, a panel of regulators and a consumer advocate said during a session of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
In a discussion moderated on T... Read More »
Achieving a balance between access and affordability of reliable power requires all voices to be heard when implementing policies and making investments, a panel of industry leaders said Monday.
Non-profit policy think tank IdeateLABS hosted a panel discussion about how to provide reliable power to... Read More »
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina awarded Duke Energy a $22 million utility energy service contract to build a microgrid at the military base.
The microgrid will include upgraded electrical infrastructure, 5 megawatts (MW) of on-site natural gas-fired generation, a 5.4-MW battery e... Read More »
For the first time, American Centrifuge Operating, LLC seeks to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) for advanced nuclear reactors domestically, and, in doing so, caught the interest of the U.S. Department of Energy – and a cost-shared, approximately $150 million award.
The award was... Read More »
Energy-related scammers continue to ply and grow their criminal tactics, but utility companies have learned the tricks and are improving their efforts to educate customers about fraudulent activities like imposter scams and aggressive threats to disconnect service.
Electric, water and natural gas... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy tapped GE Research for a project to develop grid resilient technologies that allow communities to rapidly restore power following hurricanes and severe weather events.
Specifically, GE Research will work with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; LUMA Energy, wh... Read More »
A new long-duration, iron flow battery system from ESS Inc. will form the foundation of a solar and storage microgrid powering a gas compression facility owned and operated by Consumers Energy in Michigan.
The arrangement, announced last week, will see the deployment of ESS’s Energy Warehouse p... Read More »
Panelists from the power industry, the Biden administration, Congress and the private sector agreed during a Friday COP27 Decarbonization Day session that they continue making gains during what they consider is a decisive decade for delivering results on promises made to reach net-zero emissions tha... Read More »