Customers of Piedmont Natural Gas in South Carolina and Tennessee have a new option for reducing the impact of their own natural gas usage through the GreenEdge program – a means to purchase blocks of renewable natural gas environmental attributes and carbon offsets.
Such a block costs $3 per m... Read More »
As part of a multiparty settlement between Avista, Staff of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, Clearwater Paper Corporation, Idaho Forest Group, LLC, and Walmart Inc., annual base electric revenues for the utility could increase $22.1 million this September and by another $4.3 million in 2024.
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Powering the future with increasing amounts of renewable energy needs to include the reliability of natural gas, experts say.
During a panel discussion at the Edison Electric Institute’s EEI 2023 event in Austin on Tuesday, a panel of energy experts said using natural gas as part of a clean energ... Read More »
According to entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates, the time for kicking the can down the road on transitioning the energy industry to net-zero emissions is over.
Gates, founder of Breakthrough Energy, a company that’s advancing clean energy solutions across technology, markets and policy, u... Read More »
MidAmerican Energy recently announced plans to file for a natural gas delivery rate hike in Iowa, marking its first such increase since 2002, and bringing with it a likely total monthly gas bill increase of 6 percent, on average.
Looking at the average residential customer, this would equal a mo... Read More »
As the power sector transitions to cleaner energy, companies are developing innovative technologies to help solve the challenges of integrating more renewables onto the energy grid while maintaining reliability.
As part of the kickoff for the Edison Electric Institute’s EEI 2023 conference in Aus... Read More »
A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) examines the impact of decarbonization on household gas bills.
The report examined the impacts based on two building decarbonization pathways: the electrification of currently gas-powered end uses; and the replacement ... Read More »
After purchasing the 1,200 MW natural gas-fired Covert Power Plant in Michigan’s Van Buren County, Consumers Energy announced that, as of last week, it was handling operations there.
The plant has been in operation since 2004, and with its purchase, Consumers expects to add its 29 existing emp... Read More »
The seemingly slow expansion of renewable electricity in the United States requires environmental regulators to consider input on reliability and supply before pressuring more fossil-fuel power plants to shut down, a key U.S. lawmaker said this week.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), chairman of the Se... Read More »
The deal on Sunday that was reached between the White House and House Republicans to suspend the federal debt limit includes provisions that make progress toward implementing permitting reforms to speed up energy projects.
Energy industry trade organizations praised the bipartisan efforts to reach ... Read More »