New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG) will implement a 5 percent increase for residential and some small business gas customers starting Feb. 1, 2019.
The increase is due to a spike in wholesale natural gas prices. The wholesale natural gas prices for the winter months of December 2018 through March 2019... Read More »
Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R) is looking to develop a microgrid to maintain electric service reliability for customers in several New York communities, including Washingtonville, and parts of Blooming Grove and Salisbury Mills.
O&R is seeking proposals from prospective business partners on h... Read More »
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) launched a new program this season to help customers pay their energy bills and weatherize their homes, with funds both from the company and with the assistance of other interested customers.
It is called the Neighbor to Neighbor Program, and to qualify customers must... Read More »
Blackeagle Energy Services officials said the firm recently achieved a safety-performance milestone resulting in exceeding 4 million man-hours without a lost time incident.
“We have a culture of caring at Blackeagle where every individual looks after one another," Scott Yenzer, Blackeagle's sen... Read More »
The American Petroleum Institute recently issued a statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s announcement that it would release a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the leasing program proposed for the 1002 Area (coastal plain) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (AN... Read More »
With three new large solar array projects in Lenawee County, Mich., Harvest Energy Solutions is the first provider of solar energy to a utility in the region.
The three solar installations — each of which is capable of 1.0 megawatts of AC output -- are owned by Stateline Farms, Gerken Paving, a... Read More »
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) named five appointees to a new advisory council dedicated to advancing solutions to problems in the energy industry.
The members of this inaugural advisory council include Alex Alexiev, a policy expert who worked for the Rand Corporation and was a senior an... Read More »
After five straight years of declining energy expenditures, the United States hit in 2016 its lowest point, expressed regarding gross domestic product (GDP) percentage, since at least 1970, according to a new report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The total U.S. GDP, by contra... Read More »
PNM, a wholly-owned New Mexico utility subsidiary of PNM Resources, recently added a new type of protective relay to its high-voltage transmission lines to enhance the reliability and functionality of its grid.
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) developed the technology. PNM is the first u... Read More »
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) staff issued Wednesday a straw proposal to assist in the transition from the current Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) Program to a new system.
The Clean Energy Act, which Gov. Phil Murphy signed in May, required NJBPU to adopt new rules an... Read More »