As Idaho Power and PacifiCorp moved to convert the Jim Bridger Power Plant to natural gas instead of coal, the former recently filed to include non-fuel operations and maintenance expenses in the facility’s balancing account, and regulators subsequently opened the application up to public comment.... Read More »
Regulators this week cleared Ameren Missouri to purchase a 150 MW solar facility currently under construction in Illinois, as part of a plan to double its Renewable Solutions program.
The Cass County Renewable Energy Center is currently under construction, but Ameren Missouri has been looking fo... Read More »
A study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Xcel Energy examined the performance of heat pumps in Colorado’s high altitudes and cold weather.
The study measured the performance of two heat pump configurations across a range of conditions a... Read More »
Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Company (DLC) announced recently that they had complete Phase 3A of a multi-phased project to transmission line installed more than 100 years ago.
DLC said the Brunot Island-Crescent transmission Reliability project had completed its work replacing century-old lin... Read More »
Work began this week to bury two miles of Consumers Energy power lines near Standish, Mich., as a smaller part of a year-long plan to bury 10 miles of power lines across six counties.
This segment will impact the northeastern portion of the Lower Peninsula, and crews should be at work on the proj... Read More »
Mon Power of West Virginia recently gathered its employees for an annual emergency preparation drill that sought to reinforce their roles during severe weather and test the company’s restoration process in the event of outages.
"Storm drills provide our employees a controlled, no-fault forum to... Read More »
Chesapeake Energy released its 2023 Sustainability Report this week, outlining their record and performance in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
Among the key sustainability highlights, Chesapeake achieved its 2025 climate targets on its pathway to net zero. By year-end 2023, th... Read More »
The Detroit-based DTE Energy announced plans this week to convert a portion of the retired Trenton Channel coal power plant into a 220 MW battery energy storage center by the end of 2026.
When accomplished, that would make it the largest standalone battery project in the region, and enfold a siza... Read More »
Hawaii gained its largest solar facility to date, thanks to the creation of the 60 MW Kuihelani by AES Hawaii on the island of Maui.
This solar-plus-storage facility also brought with it 240 MW hours of lithium-ion battery energy storage capable of supplying roughly 15 percent of the island’s e... Read More »
NRG Energy is one step closer to being the developer of new natural gas power generation plants in Texas.
This week, it submitted the first of three loan applications to the Texas Energy Fund (TEF) to develop new new quick-start natural gas power generation plants.
This first application is f... Read More »