As of 5 p.m. EDT on Sept. 12, crews had restored power to more than 2 million customers in Florida as well as parts of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina who had experienced outages as a result of Hurricane Irma.
Approximately 5.5 million customers were still without power after... Read More »
The U.S. solar industry installed 2387 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the second quarter of 2017, making it the largest second quarter to date.
This is an 8 percent year-and-year increase and surpasses the total from quarter one of 2017, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market I... Read More »
TransCanada Corporation recently filed a letter with the National Energy Board (NEB) seeking a 30-day suspension of applications for the Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline Project to allow the company
to review changes to the regulatory process.
The NEB recently announced changes regard... Read More »
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) recently introduced its new website and a new online community platform that SEIA members can use to network with others in the industry and make business-to-business connections.
SEIA said in a press release that the new websites are “part of the... Read More »
U.S. wind energy industry companies pledged this week $1 million to Hurricane Harvey repair and
rebuilding as keystone partners of Habitat for Humanity’s Habitat Hammers Back initiative.
Participating companies include the American Wind Energy Association, Duke Energy, Invenergy, EDF Renewab... Read More »
More than 50,000 workers from the United States and Canada have so far addressed more than 1.25 million power outages affecting more than 7 million customers across Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina following destruction caused by Hurricane Irma.
“This is likely to be one of the lar... Read More »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Sunday that it would allow Tampa Electric Company to operate without meeting all pollution controls at three of its facilities to maintain and restore electric service to Florida customers and critical facilities impacted by Hurricane Irma.
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Dominion Energy Virginia has announced potential for a pumped hydroelectric storage facility at two locations in the state’s southwest coalfield region: a 4,100-acre site in Tazewell County and an abandoned coal mine in Wise County.
The company has filed a preliminary permit for the Tazewell lo... Read More »
A discussion panel focusing on the successes of public-private partnerships among the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories, academia, and the private sector was recently hosted by the Senate National Laboratory Caucus and the House Science and National Labs Caucus and was sponsored by... Read More »
Florida Power & Light (FPL) recently announced that it mobilized a restoration workforce of 11,000 employees and contractors and activated 20 staging sites in preparation for the potential landfall of Hurricane Irma.
The company has already begun to place crews and equipment in the areas that ar... Read More »