Appalachian Power announced on Wednesday that it will begin construction this month on a $14 million project to improve the transmission system for Scott County in southwest Virginia after power showed signs of potential failure in winter 2014.
The Duffield Area Improvements Project involves a s... Read More »
POWER Engineers, Inc., recently announced that the New England East-West Solution (NEEWS), a $750 million electric transmission project on which it worked with National Grid, is complete following 10 years of planning, design and construction.
The NEEWS project was the largest electric improveme... Read More »
The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) completed its review of the use of smart grid technology on Wednesday, deciding against mandating the use of the technology after customers voiced health, safety and privacy violation concerns.
The PSC voted for the third time on the adoption of smart... Read More »
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito and a group of bipartisan legislators signed solar legislation into law yesterday.
The bill passed in Congress with strong support and will keep costs down for ratepayers.
The bill, titled “An Act Relative to Solar Ene... Read More »
NV Energy on Tuesday reported it surpassed its renewable energy goal of 20 percent last year, achieving a 31.3 percent renewable energy credit level in northern Nevada and a 21.2 percent level in southern Nevada.
The achievement was filed in NV Energy’s 2015 Renewable Portfolio Standard Annual ... Read More »
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) revealed in a study published online on Monday that carbon nanotubes have the potential to act as thermoelectric power generators for heat waste capture.
"There have not been many examples where people have re... Read More »
Six biofuel trade associations sent letters on Tuesday to Congress urging Washington to extend multiyear advanced biofuel tax credits, saying that the U.S. cannot prioritize environmental protection if unfair tax credits are given for fossil fuels.
The associations included the Advanced Biofuel... Read More »
Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Dr. Yuval Steinitz and U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz signed an agreement on Monday reaffirming their commitment to clean energy research and development.
The agreement signed was an amendment to an existing agree... Read More »
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced on Friday the discovery of a key finding that could allow for more cost-effective and green solar cell production.
Silicon solar cells are created using a paste comprised of s... Read More »
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released a summary of its most-recent grid security exercise, GridEx III, on Thursday, noting considerable improvement in preparedness and response in the event of a security threat.
GridEx III simulated a cyber and physical attack on a ... Read More »