Policy
Alabama Power, Georgia Power announce smart neighborhood initiatives
Southern Company and its Alabama Power and Georgia Power subsidiaries announced Tuesday Smart Neighborhood initiatives in Atlanta and suburban Birmingham, Alabama. The Smart Neighborhoods will include homes equipped with distributed energy resources and smart home appliances and technologies. The... Read More »Bill introduced in California to expand access to solar for businesses, schools, non-profits
California Sen. Scott Wiener recently introduced a bill that aims to expand to solar energy for businesses, schools, nonprofits, and municipalities. The bill, SB 1399, would allow non-residential customers to partner with already-developed sites such as parking lots, warehouses, brownfields and l... Read More »Mississippi Power team delivers power to first customers in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria
Mississippi Power announced recently that its team assisting with service restoration in Puerto Rico delivered power to its first customers after a month of making repairs. “We have been working extremely hard since we’ve been here and making a lot of progress, so it was a great feeling to ge... Read More »Department of Energy announces $44 million in grants for carbon capture technologies
The Department of Energy (DoE) announced $44 million in federal funding for seven projects on Friday to support research and development that aims to reduce the cost and risk of advanced carbon capture technologies. The seven projects undertake engineering-scale testing of solvent- or membrane-b... Read More »Pennsylvania PUC seeks comments on impacts of federal corporate income tax changes
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently announced that it is seeking comments from utilities and other interested parties on how reductions in utilities’ federal taxable income due to the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) may impact ratepayers. President Trump signed TCJA i... Read More »Consumers Energy aims to wipe out coal use, reach 80 percent carbon emissions reduction by 2040
Consumers Energy of Michigan has laid out an ambitious new energy plan, aiming to not only to move to greater amounts of renewable sources and energy storage by 2040 but to reduce carbon emissions by 80 and eliminate coal use entirely. The company pointed to their efforts in the past five years ... Read More »Lisa Gordon-Hagerty