Kicking off the month, Georgia Power connected Unit 4 of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant to the electric grid for the first time, ticking off another test item for the nuclear expansion project on the road to a second quarter 2024 in-service debut.
Vogtle was first commissioned in 1... Read More »
For the inaugural edition of its new series, the Clean Energy Market Monitor, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently announced that the expansion of solar PV, wind, nuclear power and electric cars tempered a massive rise of global emissions in 2023.
On paper, global energy-related CO2 em... Read More »
In filing a 2025 rate review with the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC), Portland General Electric (PGE) recently proposed upping average customer rates 7.4 percent to cover investments in battery storage, transmission infrastructure and overall grid improvements.
Importantly, the review cal... Read More »
Chevron New Energies, a division of Chevon, is developing a hydrogen production project in California’s Central Valley.
The 5-megawatt project seeks to develop lower carbon energy by using solar power, land, and non-potable produced water from Chevron’s existing assets at the Lost Hills Oil F... Read More »
In a move it says will save Americans as much as $2.2 billion per year on utility bills, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently finalized new efficiency standards for residential clothes washers and clothes dryers.
The effort was previously mandated by Congress. Since then, the DOE worked w... Read More »
The White House announced on Feb. 29 that President Joe Biden intends to nominate three new commissioners to fill vacant positions at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): Democrats Judy Chang and David Rosner and Republican Lindsay See.
FERC currently has three members and Democratic ... Read More »
Con Edison is developing technology that is designed to improve worker safety when working on underground electric cables.
The New York-based company is working on two projects that will put machines, rather than people, near the underground power cable to do the necessary repair and maintenance ... Read More »
In order to implement changes approved by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Hawaiian Electric intends to delay the launch of its new rooftop solar and energy storage programs until April 1.
These programs, originally slated to begin March 1, were created under the oversight of the PUC... Read More »
New York State has conditionally awarded two offshore wind projects from its fourth offshore wind solicitation.
One of the awards is an 810-megawatt project, Empire Wind 1, developed by Equinor. The other is Sunrise Wind, a planned 924-megawatt project, developed by Orsted and Eversource.
Onc... Read More »
The Illinois Power Agency’s (IPA) 2024 Long-Term Renewable Resources Procurement Plan (LTRRPP) received approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) last week, setting it up to purchase more than $1.1 billion of new renewable generation over the next two years.
While the plan will need... Read More »