Southern Company, working with its partners, began pumped-salt operations in the Integrated Effects Test (IET).
The IET is a nonnuclear, externally heated, up to 1-megawatt multiloop system – the world's largest chloride salt system developed by the nuclear sector. It is the culmination of year... Read More »
Plans are underway to deploy up to 300 electric vehicle chargers at the downtown Chicago parking complex by 2026, as part of a partnership between ComEd and Millennium Garages.
Last week, they finished installing the first 100 of those chargers, expanding the Midwest’s largest public EV chargin... Read More »
A new plan filed by several upper Midwest energy companies would help retire fossil-fuel based plants and move toward renewable energy.
The energy companies filed the plan with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on Sept. 29. The plan covers a transmission project in Minnesota and no... Read More »
Rhode Island Energy is issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to solicit approximately 1200 megawatts of new offshore wind.
"Offshore wind is critical in advancing Rhode Island's 100 percent renewable energy standard and Act on Climate objectives," Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said. "It's more impo... Read More »
With the departure of Xcel Energy’s group president of Utilities and chief customer officer, the company opted this week to appoint its current executive vice president, chief legal and compliance officer to the role, as well as to name a new general counsel.
Amanda Rome took the former role f... Read More »
Avangrid hosted its annual Digital Summit last week, showcasing the latest digital solutions for the energy section.
The two-day event, which took place at Avangrid’s Connecticut headquarters, featured disruptive technologies that will advance smart grids, improve operations efficiency and enha... Read More »
Following approval by the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) this week, Ameren Illinois will build a new transmission line to improve grid reliability for customers operating in LaSalle County.
The project will be competitively bid out and built by Illinois-based union electric workers, and will ... Read More »
In order to prepare for the coming winter, Penelec, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., held a tabletop exercise recently to prepare its employees on storm restoration processes.
The drill was designed to ready employees on outages caused by severe weather throughout the company’s vast and heav... Read More »
Dominion Energy received notice of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by TRC Capital Investment Corp. to purchase up to 2 million shares of Dominion Energy's common stock at a price of $44 per share in cash.
Dominion Energy does not endorse TRC Capital's unsolicited mini-tender offer and recomme... Read More »
Starting this week, Duke Energy Progress will implement new rates for its North Carolina customers.
With the new rates, which have been approved by the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC), the typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month will see an increase of $... Read More »