Duke Energy and Invenergy hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for Duke Energy Renewables' Shoreham Solar Commons Project, a 24.9-megawatt (MW) facility near Brookhaven, New York.
More than 50 community, business, and energy leaders attended the event.
Shoreham Solar Commons was placed int... Read More »
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) terminated Tuesday the territorial agreement between Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and the City of Vero Beach (COVB), effective on the closing date of the sale of COVB’s electric utility to FPL.
On the closing date, all current COVB electric cus... Read More »
A coalition of renewable energy proponents dispatched a joint letter this week to both sides of Congressional leadership, urging them to clarify the eligibility of energy storage operations for the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) before the end of the year.
Such operations are critical to gri... Read More »
The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement maintains a series of new projects will reverse the nearly 20-year trend of natural gas production in the Federal Gulf of Mexico (GOM) declining.
Officials said 10 new natural gas production fields are expected to star... Read More »
Empire State Connector Corp. (ESC) announced Monday that it secured a Letter of Interest (LOI) from a potential anchor customer for capacity on its proposed 1,000-megawatt (MW) high voltage transmission line from Utica to Brooklyn, New York.
This LOI enables ESC to complete Stage Two of its Open... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently said that it would invest approximately $1.36 million to extend a research project with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Schlumberger into using the natural gas produced from a well to create a foam to serve as the base hydraulic fracturing fluid.
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) recently awarded DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) $2.8 million to develop a grid electricity storage and power generation system.
The system includes a charging device, thermal energy storage m... Read More »
While the share of oil and natural gas production on federal lands has dropped since 2009, production has skyrocketed on private and state lands, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
Oil production on private and state lands in 2017 was 108 percent higher than in ... Read More »
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) laid out the next steps for DTE Energy and Consumers Energy Co.’s distribution plans last week, establishing a mid-2020 deadline for the two companies.
“With the need to modernize electric infrastructure, increase electric reliability, and integra... Read More »
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has conditionally approved a construction permit for the Prevailing Wind Park, a 219.6-megawatt wind energy facility slated to serve three counties.
Officials said the site would serve Bon Homme, Charles Mix, and Hutchinson counties. Commission ... Read More »