ComEd of Illinois recently announced that $130 million has been successfully dispatched through its distributed generation rebate program to date, following its creation in 2017 by the Future Energy Jobs Act and its expansion by the 2021 Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.
The record-breakin... Read More »
On Monday, FirstEnergy Corp’s Ohio Electric companies – Ohio Edison, The Illuminating Company, and Toledo Edison -- reached a settlement on their Grid Modernization (Grid Mod) II plan.
If approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), the $421 million plan will upgrade the syste... Read More »
A total of 26 organizations from the American West recently signed a letter of support for Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) development of Markets+, cheering its unique design and governance structure.
On March 29, 2024, SPP submitted a tariff to establish Markets+, a centralized Day-Ahead and Re... Read More »
In a move the Biden administration claims could save American as much as $1 trillion over three decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently finalized energy efficiency standards for general service lamps.
While the new standards won’t go into effect until July 2028 for newly produced... Read More »
On Thursday, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced its recently built charging infrastructure will help Bali Express make an historic crossing of a Class 8 heavy-duty freight truck across the U.S.-Mexico border.
SDG&E said the crossing of a Class 8 heavy-duty electric freight truck would be... Read More »
National Grid reached an agreement on a three-year rate plan proposal for its customers in the New York City and Long Island areas.
If the three-year agreement is approved by the New York State Public Service Commission, a typical residential heating customer in New York City using 97 therms of... Read More »
In a testament to what can be achieved through collaboration, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Edison Electric Institute's Institute for the Energy Transition, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council convened a group of specialists in ... Read More »
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have partnered to produce a report on the potential for electric vehicle (EV) efficiency improvements to reduce infrastructure and consumer costs.
The study said that efficiency gains create opportunitie... Read More »
Construction began this week on ComEd’s Elmhurst transmission substation in DuPage County, Ill., heralding the expansion of the 345 kV facility meant to maintain reliability for existing customers and enable future capacity upgrades for regional growth.
Construction is expected to continue to D... Read More »
In a first for AES Hawaii, the company this week announced that a new 12.5 MW solar plus storage facility began generating power on Oahu.
Based in West Oahu, the site’s clean generation is backed by a 50 MW hour battery energy storage system. The whole facility operates under a 25-year power pu... Read More »