Capital Power Corp. signed an agreement with the Public Services and Procurement Canada to provide clean electricity for all federal government buildings in Alberta.
Through this 23-year agreement, Capital Power will provide approximately 250,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity per year. The ... Read More »
A new report from Consumers Energy highlighted a nearly 20 percent reduction in customer outages last year owing to significant upgrades to its electric grid and the completion of more than 2,000 electric projects.
Last year’s efforts by the Michigan-based utility led to the replacement of 10,... Read More »
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is urging the Biden administration to follow the guidelines in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to invest in a broad variety of energy storage technologies.
In a letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, the senators outlined their supp... Read More »
Under a plan newly approved by regulators in both North Carolina and South Carolina, the Duke Energy subsidiary Piedmont Natural Gas intends to reduce customer billing rates beginning this month.
For the average residential customer in North Carolina, these cuts should work out to around $14 per ... Read More »
The 75th community solar development in ComEd’s service territory entered service last week, with the opening of the 2,495 MW Speedway Solar project as created by Summit Ridge Energy (SRE).
The project consists of more than 2,300 solar panels spread across 31 acres of land. It will allow more ... Read More »
The first integrated resource plan pitched by Indiana Michigan Power Co. (I&M) won approval from the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) last week as part of a settlement between the company and a mix of governmental, citizen, and environmental groups.
I&M counts approximately 131,000 resi... Read More »
Duke Energy has launched a new solar microgrid in Hot Springs, N.C., located in Madison County.
The Hot Springs microgrid is made up of a 2-megawatt (AC) solar facility and a 4.4-megawatt lithium-based battery storage facility.
“Duke Energy has numerous smaller microgrids on our system, bu... Read More »
FirstEnergy Corp. announced Thursday it had entered into an agreement with Brookfield (Brookfield) Super-Core Infrastructure Partners to sell an additional 30 percent ownership in its FirstEnergy Transmission, LLC (FET).
The $3.5 billion all-cash deal with strengthen FirstEnergy’s position, th... Read More »
Xcel Energy’s Minnesota customers are expected to save an estimated $1.4 billion in costs over the next 10 years through provisions in the federal Inflation Reduction Act.
In a filing with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy outlined its plan to leverage new and extended tax... Read More »
Duke Energy is looking to expand a program that would allow its customers to supplement their power usage with 100 percent renewable power.
Duke Energy’s Green Source Advantage (GSA) program, launched in 2017, allows large customers to offset their power purchases by securing renewable energy f... Read More »