The more than 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) already on American roadways this year is expected to swell beyond 18.5 million in just over a decade, according to Friday’s newly released report “Electric Vehicle Sales Forecast and the Charging Infrastructure Required Through 2030” from the Ed... Read More »
A newly elected team of state legislators and governors around the country who are considered friendly to renewable energy takes the field this winter and could clear the way for a new growth spurt in wind and solar generation.
The midterm elections in various key states resulted in leadership at... Read More »
A new pilot program, launching under the Nissan Energy Share initiative, will research whether the energy stored in electric vehicles (EVs) can help companies save on electric utility costs.
The program will partially power Nissan’s North American headquarters in Franklin, Tenn., and Nissan's ... Read More »
The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) terminated Tuesday the territorial agreement between Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and the City of Vero Beach (COVB), effective on the closing date of the sale of COVB’s electric utility to FPL.
On the closing date, all current COVB electric cus... Read More »
Empire State Connector Corp. (ESC) announced Monday that it secured a Letter of Interest (LOI) from a potential anchor customer for capacity on its proposed 1,000-megawatt (MW) high voltage transmission line from Utica to Brooklyn, New York.
This LOI enables ESC to complete Stage Two of its Open... Read More »
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) recently awarded DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) $2.8 million to develop a grid electricity storage and power generation system.
The system includes a charging device, thermal energy storage m... Read More »
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) laid out the next steps for DTE Energy and Consumers Energy Co.’s distribution plans last week, establishing a mid-2020 deadline for the two companies.
“With the need to modernize electric infrastructure, increase electric reliability, and integra... Read More »
Duke Energy is providing the technical college system in South Carolina with $1 million in grants to expand training opportunities for utility line workers across the state.
Utility line workers are in demand in the state as thousands of jobs will be open as Duke Energy and other utilities build ... Read More »
New York State launched several initiatives to facilitate the use of electric vehicles.
One of the initiatives is to expand the state’s EVolve NY program, which calls for the installation of public fast-charging stations. The $250 million EVolve program calls for the deployment of up to 200 150... Read More »
Electricity is the most common fuel used for cooking, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey.
The survey found that 74.9 million households – or 63 percent -- use electricity for cooking. Further, 59 percent of households use the same type o... Read More »