Consumes Energy aids deployment of all-electric school buses to 11 Michigan school districts
Ahead of the annual return to school, Consumers Energy worked with 11 Michigan school districts and a heap of federal funding to get traditional, fuel-burning school buses replaced with all electric buses. This was made possible by federal grants that provided funding for more than 50 electric ... Read More »NERC outlines 5 major grid reliability risks in new report
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) identified five significant evolving and interdependent risks to grid reliability in its 2023 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report. The five chief risks, according to NERC, are energy policy, grid transformation, resilience to extreme eve... Read More »Appalachian Power applies for electrical upgrades in Virginia
Looking to roll out a new electrical source for the region and deploy reliability upgrades for customers of Virginia’s Patrick, Henry, Floyd, Franklin and Carroll counties, Appalachian Power filed a project application last month with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). Now, the ... Read More »Credit: Green Mountain Power
Green Mountain Power removes caps on home battery storage programs
Green Mountain Power (GMP) has removed the cap on two of its home battery storage programs to allow more customers to access them after receiving approval from the Vermont utility regulator. This past April, after the third devastating storm in less than twelve months, GMP filed a request with the ... Read More »DOE study probes the benefits of closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems
An analysis conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found that closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems have the lowest potential to add to global warming for energy storage. These findings, reported in the journal Environmental ... Read More »Credit: Avangrid