The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas recently issued a notice to natural gas pipeline operators, electric generation operators and electric utilities, urging them to finalize coordinated preparations for the summer and maintain open lines of commun... Read More »
Avista installed Wednesday a smart electric meter, the first of its Smarter Together project, at a home on the National Register of Historic Places in the Millwood community near Spokane, Wash.
“This home – and its owners – are stepping into the future,” Avista Vice President of Energy D... Read More »
Green Mountain Power (GMP) and Renewable Energy
Vermont (REV) have launched a program that allows customers to share access to
their energy.
The program, called Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), is for
customers with home batteries. It allows them to share access to their stored
energy. This will dr... 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 »
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 »
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 »
Emera Maine crews were out restoring power to the Northern
and “Down East” regions of Maine on Monday, Feb. 25 as strong winds caused
power outages.
As of Feb. 26, Emera Maine had restored service to more than
3,300 customers, primarily in the Bangor area, who had lost power from the
strong ... Read More »