Creating a ready-and-able workforce to usher the United States into its green energy future will require reaching out to the nation’s youth as early as their first school field trips, industry witnesses told a congressional hearing.
The push to fire-up students about future careers in science ... Read More »
WASHINGTON – A pan
el of energy experts agreed Wednesday, while Congress holds the keys to major reforms to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), state legislatures and public service commissions can make meaningful changes to the 40-year-old law in order to affect their own... Read More »
Federal and state officials discussed the importance of energy storage and highlighted the need for a supportive regulatory environment at the Energy Storage Association (ESA) annual Policy Forum held recently in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) announced plans to introduce legi... Read More »
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) unveiled Tuesday a new piece of smart grid technology, called the Automated Transformer Switch (ATS), also called a VacuFuse Self-Resetting Interrupter, which helps to prevent and reduce power outages.
“The investments we’ve made throughout the last 1... Read More »
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) plans to rebuild approximately 20 miles of transmission line in Indiana’s Delaware and Grant counties, modernizing the grid supported therein.
The announcement means that for customers in the east-central portion of the state, new towers will soon be on hand, ... Read More »
Four Alaska utilities submitted an application to
the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to form a transmission-only utility in
Alaska’s Railbelt region.
The four utilities that filed the application are
the Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA), Anchorage Municipal Light and
Power (ML&P... Read More »
A bipartisan group of senators recently sent a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen urging them ban the use of inverters made by the Chinese-owned company, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, citing cybersecurity concerns.
“Huawei has recently become... Read More »
Sempra Energy officials said next month the company would move forward with the formal process of selling its South American business interests, including sites in Peru and Chile.
The utility is interested in selling its 83.6-percent stake in Peru's Luz del Sur S.A.A. as well as its 100-percent ... Read More »
Georgia Power announced Monday that it would begin the dewatering process at Plant Branch on March 4.
The company said in December that it would begin the dewatering process early this year. The dewatering process will move the company closer to completing the site-specific closure process throu... Read More »
A coalition of clean energy organizations came out in
support of reforms recommended by the New York Department of Public Service’s
(DPS) on the future of commercial and community solar projects.
The recommendations are part of reforms to the Value
of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER)
polic... Read More »