Thursday, April 22, 2021
Reports
SoCalGas donates $50,000 to Los Angeles Urban League Construction Career Academy
With a donation of $50,000 from Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), a new class of students at the Los Angeles Urban League Construction Career Academy are finishing up their studies. The Construction Career Academy workforce development program trains adults for employment in the construction a... Read More »
SEIA warns policies needed to supplement massive solar market growth with actual climate action
Although encouraged by the most recent United States Solar Market Insight report, which predicted growth of four times the current amount of solar capacity by 2030, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) notes that climate-focused policies must accompany this economic action. If the marke... Read More »
Combustible-by-product from electric industry drops 34 percent in past decade
Combustible by-product (CBP) production in the U.S. electric power industry has dropped sharply over the past decade, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Combustible-by-product is the residue left over after the combustion of coal, petroleum coke, residual fuel oil,... Read More »
Annual spending by utilities on electric transmission system rose more than $30B in 19 years
Between 2000 and 2019, annual spending by major U.S. utilities on the electric transmission system grew from $9.1 billion to $40 billion, and spending continues to rise, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Most of this investment has gone toward station equipment, poles... Read More »
DOE announces $29M for energy, climate and security-driving data analysis tools
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $29 million for labs, universities, industry, and nonprofit research institutions to spur new data analysis tools capable of processing tons of data to provide new research insights for American energy. Such tools can allow scientists and res... Read More »
Report examines how to improve transmission processes to better deploy renewable energy
A new report from Concentric Energy Advisors on regional and interregional transmission planning in the Great Plains, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic reveals how the current processes impede the development of low-cost renewable power. The analysis, commissioned by the American Council on Renewable Ene... Read More »
Exelon-led projects honored for innovation in Electric Power Research Institute’s 2020 Technology Transfer Awards
Three different projects, led by Exelon Generation employees and joined by teammates from BGE, ComEd, PECO, Pepco, and PHI, were awarded Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) 2020 Technology Transfer Awards last week for clean energy innovations. Honors were doled out for work within unma... Read More »
Michael T. Carrigan
Illinois commissioner named to NARUC’s Nuclear Energy Partnership
Michael Carrigan, the commissioner of the Illinois Commerce Commission, will participate in the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Nuclear Energy Partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. This five-year partnership will enable state public ser... Read More »
