The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced awards in its Future Grid Challenge, which was created to develop solutions to integrate renewable energy into the electric grid.
The project teams will help various New York’s utilities, including Central Hudson ... Read More »
Sandia National Laboratories recently launched two initiatives to shore up technological defenses for the U.S. energy grid and nuclear weapons systems.
Up to $40 million in total funding is being pumped into the Resilient Energy Systems campaign, meant to defend large U.S. electrical utility syst... Read More »
New Jersey set a record for solar installation in 2019, according to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU).
A new NJBPU report found that 447 megawatts (MWdc) of solar capacity commenced commercial operations in 2019 – a record for one year. Those installations bring the state’s t... Read More »
During a presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this week, director of the National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) Brian Anderson discussed methods being pursued to assure cost-effective, clean as possible carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies.
NETL believes... Read More »
Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) reached a settlement agreement this week with parties in Louisiana -- including the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) Staff, the Alliance for Affordable Energy, and Walmart, Inc. -- regarding its proposal to add 810 MW of wind energy.
While this a... Read More »
Amazon is leaning hard into a pledge to reach 80 percent renewable energy by 2024, with the announcement of four new wind and solar energy projects set to produce some 840,000-megawatt hours of energy annually across Virginia, Spain, Sweden, and Australia.
To date, the corporate giant already ow... Read More »
During a visit to Michigan, Finland's Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that represents a shared commitment to innovate and collaborate on clean technology industries.
Such a commitment -- which encompasses dedication to sto... Read More »
A new, zero-emission, all-electric backhoe loader developed by CASE Construction Equipment is being put to the test by utilities National Grid, AVANGRID, and New York State Electric and Gas, and Rochester Gas & Electric (NYSEG/RG&E).
Commissioned by the utilities, and built from CASE’s traditio... Read More »
As a means of lowering emissions along the Gulf Coast and beginning the swap from fossil fuel power, Energy Louisiana and Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) have teamed up to build the first utility-scale shore power installation in Port Fourchon, La.
That port provides has a hand in nearly 20 percent... Read More »
Cruising on a growth surge expected to continue through at least 2025, the U.S. energy storage market set a new power capacity record in the fourth quarter of last year, deploying 186.4 megawatts (MW) and 364.2 megawatt-hours (MWh) of storage.
“2019 was a remarkable year for energy storage, and... Read More »