Minnesota Power recently announces plans invest approximately $40 million into three solar projects that will yield 20 megawatts of arrays in northern Minnesota and triple the company’s solar energy portfolio.
That is, of course, if the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) signs off on... Read More »
Thanks to investments from Energy Impact Partners, Piva, Salesforce Ventures, and National Grid Partners, Urbint has raised $20 million to further technology capable of predicting and preventing threats to energy infrastructure and worker safety.
“A few years ago, we saw that utilities were fac... Read More »
Entergy New Orleans reached a milestone this week as the 100th customer signed up to participate in the ReNEWable Orleans Residential Rooftop Solar Program.
This program allows low-income customers to have solar panels installed on their homes while receiving a $30 credit on their energy bills ea... Read More »
Sunrun, a leading home solar and battery storage company, is working on solar energy storage projects with both Orange & Rockland (O&R) Utilities and Southern California Energy (SCE).
O&R recently got approval to deploy rooftop solar and battery systems as part of a virtual power plant project in... Read More »
The Cybersecurity Advisory Team for State Solar (CATSS) formed this week as part of a joint effort on behalf of the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) to reduce cybersecurity risks to solar energy developmen... Read More »
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced plans to develop New Jersey Wind Port, an infrastructure investment that will provide a location for essential staging, assembly, and manufacturing activities related to offshore wind projects on the East Coast.
The Wind Port has the potential to create up t... Read More »
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) rallied behind efforts to expand and upgrade the nation’s transmission network this week, creating the Macro Grid Initiative to drive support.
The new organization is built on the notion that a moderni... Read More »
As part of its final Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), Vectren revealed this week that over the next 20 years, it will push a portfolio of nearly two-thirds renewable resources and cut its carbon emissions by almost 75 percent compared to 2005 levels.
Much of the new energy will come from universal... Read More »
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is developing ways to transform coal and natural gas into chemicals, including hydrogen (H2) gas, to advance the use of fossil fuels in an environmentally responsible manner.
In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of... Read More »
In its new Sustainability Report, New York-based Con Edison advocated for utility ownership of renewable projects in the state.
This would help the state reach its clean energy goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2040.
Con Edison is the second-largest producer of solar energy in the count... Read More »