The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) elected Calvin G. Butler, president and CEO of Exelon, to vice chair of its board.
Butler will serve alongside EEI Chair Pedro Pizarro, president and CEO of Edison International, and EEI Vice Chair Maria Pope, president and CEO of Portland General Electric.
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It’s common knowledge in the power industry that the amount of clean energy needed to reach the nation’s decarbonization goals can't be added to the grid until the United States has adequate transmission.
“Given the proliferation of renewables across large swaths of the country, it is lik... Read More »
According to a new Short-Term Energy Outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), solar electric generation will likely dominate growth in the power sector through 2025, boosting solar’s overall share of total generation.
Over the course of 2025, solar is expected to account... Read More »
In its long-term load forecast released this week, PJM Interconnection lays out its predictions for estimated electricity demand growth.
The forecast estimated 1.7 percent per year demand growth for summer peaks, 2 percent for winter peaks, and 2.4 percent for net energy over a 10-year planning hor... Read More »
The battery storage industry continues to make significant gains in the United States, with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) this week stating it expects storage capacity to nearly double to more than 30 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2024.
Developers have announced more than 300 utili... Read More »
A recent study by Louisiana State University (LSU) found that Entergy New Orlean’s total economic impact to the city of New Orleans is about a half a billion dollars.
The study, done by LSU economist Dr. Loren Scott, examined the various ways that Entergy, as the city’s only Fortune 500 compa... Read More »
U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Jeff Duncan (R-SC) are seeking information from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on the increasing retirements of power plants across the country.
Rodgers, head of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Duncan, chair of the Grid Security... Read More »
There is enough battery production capacity in the United States to supply all electric vehicles expected to be sold through 2030, according to a new report from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
By 2028, the industry will churn out more than 1,000 GW hours per year of EV battery production c... Read More »
In a 36-page report to Gov. John Carney and state lawmakers, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s (DNREC) State Energy Office recently laid out changing conditions facing the offshore wind industry, items to consider in development, and recommendations for a win... Read More »
NiSource issued a 19.9 percent indirect equity interest in the company’s Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) subsidiary to an affiliate of Blackstone Infrastructure Partners.
Specifically, the Blackstone affiliate acquired a 19.9 percent non-controlling equity interest in NIPSCO Ho... Read More »