Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Entergy Nuclear focused on nuclear, technology-neutral tax credits
In a speech to attendees of the annual EnergySolutions conference in Salt Lake City, Kimberly Cook-Nelson, Entergy Nuclear executive vice president and chief nuclear officer, laid out her company’s future and the focuses that could get it there. Like many in the industry, Entergy currently has... Read More »
Orange & Rockland Utilities working with SunRun on solar energy pilot program
Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R) is working with solar energy provider Sunrun on a pilot program to deploy 300 rooftop solar and battery backup systems to customers in the town of Warwick, N.Y. Customers participating in the pilot program will host a Brightbox system, which consists of solar pan... Read More »
NERC convenes industry leaders for Reliability Leadership Summit
The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) held its Reliability Leadership Summit on Jan. 25, which focused on energy policy, security, the evolving resource mix, and technology innovation as they relate to the reliable operation of the bulk power system. The summit, sponsored by NERCâ€... Read More »
DOE announces $47M in funding for research, development and demonstration of affordable clean hydrogen tech
The Biden administration is looking to advance clean hydrogen technology in a big way, and to that end, announced last week that up to $47 million will be available for the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) for affordable entries into the field. Clean hydrogen is so named for its pr... Read More »
ComEd reports 85 percent of northern Illinois customers experienced at most one outage in 2022
Despite sometimes severe weather patterns, 2022 was, for many in northern Illinois, a year without electric troubles – according to ComEd, its investments in the power grid brought reliability that allowed nearly 3.5 million customers to avoid all but, at most, one outage last year. This recor... Read More »
PSEG Long island conducting storm hardening work in Long Island communities
PSEG Long Island is conducting storm-hardening work in the communities of East Massapequa, North Amityville, Amityville, and Babylon as part of its Power On program. The work began in early January and will continue for about four months. Among the projects being done, PSEG Long Island will repla... Read More »
Orsted, Eversource submit joint proposal for New York offshore wind solicitation
Orsted and Eversource submitted a joint proposal last week in response to New York State’s third round of offshore wind solicitations. The submission includes multiple bids with different configurations. The proposal is designed to generate billions of dollars for the state economy, create tho... Read More »
Xcel Energy, Form Energy partner on energy storage projects
On Thursday, Xcel Energy and Form Energy announced that they had entered into agreements to expand access to reliable, low-cost renewable energy as Xcel retires coal plants in Minnesota and Colorado. The agreements would allow Xcel Energy to deploy Form Energy’s 10MW/1,000 MWh iron-air battery... Read More »
Eric Silagy
