A construction permit was authorized for the Deuel Harvest North Wind Farm in South Dakota this week, so long as the facility meets the recommended conditions.
Those conditions, established by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, hold that the site must, among other things, maintain cer... Read More »
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) recently released a report, Grid Vision: The Electric Highway to a 21st Century Economy, which highlights the need for well-planned transmission investment in the United States.
The report covers more than a dozen independent studies that quantify benef... Read More »
Siemens Corporate Technology U.S. won a $6.4 million research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance solar energy’s role in strengthening the U.S. electricity grid.
Siemens will work to create an energy management system that can coord... Read More »
The clean, green future of electricity in the United States is at hand, but the three-headed monster of bureaucracy, regulation and litigation continues to bog down the expansion of the nation’s power grids that will accommodate the boom, participants in a panel discussion on the topic said this w... Read More »
Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) and Marc Veasey (D-TX) introduced Monday legislation designed to enhance federal building energy efficiency.
The All-of-the-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act increases flexibility in energy sources for federal buildings by removing the present ban ... Read More »
As of this week, a new goal drives Madison Gas & Electric (MGE): eliminating carbon emissions from its electricity offerings by 2050.
This new, net-zero carbon plan puts the Wisconsin energy company in line with a growing number of other U.S. utilities setting similar goals. The plan was announce... Read More »
NEC has completed a 500 kW/1000 kWh battery energy storage system installed at the Howard Elementary School in Eugene, Ore., to provide community savings, resiliency, and emergency water supply.
The system, which is owned and operated by the Eugene Water & Electric Board, will not only reduce ene... Read More »
The non-profit Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) has launched a new initiative known as Access Clean Energy Savings (ACES), with the intention of help rural electric cooperatives and public utilities navigate Rural Electric Savings Program (RESP) applications.
RESP is a loan program... Read More »
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) approved on Monday a preapproval application from OG&E, a subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp., to acquire the AES Shady Point plant near Poteau, Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Cogeneration LLC facility in Oklahoma City.
The company filed the preapproval request in ... Read More »
Legislation designed to promote the research and development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology was introduced in the U.S. Senate recently.
The bipartisan bill, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act, would incentivize collaboration between... Read More »