Duke Energy has started construction on the Broad River Solar power plant, a 50-MW in Cleveland County, N.C.
The facility -- owned and operated by Duke Energy Renewables, a subsidiary of Duke Energy -- will contain more than 170,000 solar panels across approximately 500 acres near Boiling Springs... Read More »
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) passed a resolution proposing to place Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) into step one of the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement program established last year.
In the resolution, CPUC cited shortcomings in the company’s 2020 Enhanced Veget... Read More »
The Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Department (LTU) in Nebraska announced the completion of a unique project last week to use the natural gas from a city wastewater facility and turn it into vehicle fuel.
Digestion of solids in that wastewater produces the greenhouse gas methane. Tradition... Read More »
Texas power producers will likely have to make sure their power plants, wind turbines and natural gas pipelines are ready for next winter, but is the state standing by to assist?
As Texas gets back on its feet after February’s wave of power outages, it appears the state’s priorities for the i... Read More »
Gulf Power is building two new solar energy centers in Northwest Florida that should be up and running by the end of 2021.
The two new solar centers are the Cotton Creek Solar Energy Center in Escambia County and the Blue Springs Solar Energy Center in Jackson County. They are expected to bring a... Read More »
A new report from the Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies (WATT) Coalition, “Unlocking the Queue,” proposes that advanced transmission technologies could more than double the possible development of renewable energy capacity in Kansas and Oklahoma by 2025.
This would be thanks to t... Read More »
Recognizing the threat that cyberattacks pose to critical modern infrastructure such as the electric grid, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) RADICS program has set about developing technologies to rapidly recover from such attacks and provide a testbed for program evaluations.
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A new 200 MW solar project has begun construction in Illinois, care of National Grid Renewables and a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Cargill.
The Prairie Wolf Solar Project is slated to bring in millions in tax revenue, landowner income, and charitable initiatives to the region, in additi... Read More »
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy cut carbon emissions by approximately 6 million tons, or 12 percent, in 2020, making it the largest single-year drop in emissions in the company’s history.
Since 2005, the company has reduced carbon emissions by 51 percent. Xcel has outpaced the broader industry, ... Read More »
A new report from Michigan’s DTE Energy noted that thousands of installations and upgrades, combined with maintenance efforts across the region, boosted power reliability by 25 percent last year, reduced outages, and expanded electric capacity.
Last year, the company replaced nearly 13,000 util... Read More »