Utility companies across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are working to restore power as Hurricane Idalia heads out to sea.
Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning over Keaton Beach, Florida near Tallahassee as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane hit Florida’s Big Bend area wi... Read More »
The U.S. Department of the Interior held the first-ever offshore wind energy auction for the Gulf of Mexico region this week.
The auction resulted in one lease area receiving a high bid of $5.6 million. It came from RWE Offshore US Gulf, LLC, which won the Lake Charles Lease Area. This lease area... Read More »
The GREATER MSP Partnership, Bank of America, Delta Air Lines, Ecolab and Xcel Energy formed the first large-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) hub in the United States this week to scale production and replace conventional jet fuel, decarbonizing aggressively by 2050.
The Minnesota SAF Hub l... Read More »
According to the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), solar photovoltaic panel shipments to the country increased to record levels last year, with 10 percent growth over 2021.
Shipments reached 31.7 million peak kW in 2022, and that positive energy followed into cap... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $300 million in grants for states, tribes, and local governments to accelerate and strengthen electric transmission siting and permitting processes.
The Transmission Siting and Economic Development (TSED) grant program -- supported by the Infl... Read More »
Together with auto industry giants like General Motors, Ford Motor Company and BMW of North America, Duke Energy will launch a new electric vehicle (EV) pilot program on Sept. 1, 2023 to establish flat fees under a residential charging subscription option.
Customers will be able to decide their ... Read More »
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) resolved a legal matter involving System Energy Resources (SERI), a subsidiary of Entergy, over uncertain tax positions.
In this case, FERC denied a request for SERI -- the majority owner of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Miss. -- t... Read More »
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is seeking comments from interested parties on a proposed policy statement that sets guidelines for the use of electricity storage by electric distribution companies (EDC).
The PUC has already conducted two rounds of public comment on matters relat... Read More »
Grants totaling $126 million were announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week as awards to small businesses’ efforts in pursuit of clean energy and decarbonization, cybersecurity, reliability, fusion energy and nuclear nonproliferation.
A total of 106 awards were doled out, thou... Read More »
(Updates paragraph two with information from EEI and PowerOutage.us.)
As Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and hit Florida Wednesday, power companies across the South prepared for it to morph into a dangerous major hurricane.
More than 25,000 workers from at leas... Read More »