At the 2024 Consumer Symposium, the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) recently announced winners of its 2024 Best Practices Awards, meant to honor the unique ways that providers have improved customer experience and engagement in the past year.
“Over the past year, consumers and smal... Read More »
DTE Energy of Michigan recently opened a competitive bidding process for developers as it seeks proposals for 1,075 MW of renewable energy projects that will support its CleanVision Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), MIGreenPower program and Michigan’s own renewable energy standard push.
As a stat... Read More »
Schneider Electric and Itron, Inc. are collaborating on an effort to improve energy and grid management for utilities as homeowners and businesses increasingly adopt distributed energy resources (DER).
Through this partnership, the companies will integrate their intelligent grid and distributed e... Read More »
PNM Resources and American Electric Power (AEP) sold their stakes in New Mexico Renewable Development to Exus North America Holdings.
AEP owned 50 percent of the company while PNM Resources owned the other 50 percent.
Both companies have already received necessary regulatory approval from the... Read More »
U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) is among a group of lawmakers urging the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to finalize its pending regional transmission planning and cost allocation rule.
This proposed rule, which has been pending for over a year, seeks to remedy defi... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently selected 16 projects across the country to receive a total of $45 million meant to bolster cybersecurity in the nation’s energy sector.
Recipients included projects in California, Georgia, Iowa, New York, Kansas, and Texas. Selected projects were ch... Read More »
Portland General Electric (PGE) has expanded a program that offers discounts to certain customers who qualify.
PGE’s Income-Qualified Bill Discount (IQBD) program will now provide up to a 60 percent monthly energy discount to customers who qualify based on income level. PGE launched the IQBD pr... Read More »
After an agreement by its current CEO Julie Sloat and the American Electric Power (AEP) Board of Directors, the company recently announced a new interim CEO and president, Benjamin Fowke III, along with a new chair of the board, Sara Martinez Tucker.
AEP added that the decision among its executiv... Read More »
The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) approved a rate adjustment for Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) that seeks to recover costs spent to upgrade the electric system and invest in infrastructure.
Starting March 8, the average residential customer using 1,050 kilowatt hours (kWh) per month wil... Read More »
As the industry shifts increasingly toward cleaner methods of power, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) recently released a new report contemplating the role that securitization could play in managing costs attached to early coal plant retirement.
In the year 20... Read More »