Ameren Missouri recently filed plans with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) for its Renewable Choice Program, which is designed to help large businesses and cities in Missouri meet their renewable energy goals.
The program would allow customers to subscribe to purchase up to 100 perce... Read More »
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently announced two public comment hearings on a proposed stipulation that would ask the PUC to consider an additional portfolio of new generation resources for Xcel Energy’s electric resource plan.
The proposed stipulation does not seek approv... Read More »
An idea to commercialize wind energy for retailers won the top prize in a competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories’ for scientists to pitch their most innovative energy-related ideas.
Now, the winning team from Sandia will compete in the National Lab Accelerator Pitch Event on Nov... Read More »
Working natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 states as of Oct. 31, totaled 3,784 billion cubic feet (Bcf), 2 percent lower than the previous five-year end-of-October average, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Data from the EIA’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report ... Read More »
Researchers at U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) national laboratories recently claimed 33 of 100 annual awards given by R&D Magazine for the introduction of exceptional new products and processes to the marketplace in the previous year.
An independent panel of judges evaluates products and proces... Read More »
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) officially set rates last week for renewable energy developers.
These new, avoided cost rates mean that renewable energy facilities in Michigan must be paid that rate for the power they supply to the grid, and the state’s major utilities. Back in Ju... Read More »
The Affordable Energy Coalition (AEC) recently announced that several consumer and business groups joined the alliance to oppose the Department of Energy's (DOE) proposal to compensate power plants that keep 90 days' worth of fuel onsite.
The DOE filed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) with... Read More »
A recent survey of 250 people living within 10 miles of Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) near Brownville, Nebraska, found that most of the participants had a “favorable impression” of the plant, even in the wake of a hydrogen leak recently discovered at the plant.
Bisconti Research, Inc., along ... Read More »
Biomass and waste fuels generated 71.4 billion kilowatthours of U.S. electricity in 2016, which equals 2 percent of total generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) recently released annual electric power data.
EIA defines biomass fuels as all non-fossil, carbo... Read More »
PPL Electric Utilities President Greg Dudkin testified recently before the Pennsylvania House Consumer Affairs Committee in support of H.B. 1782, which would provide for alternative rate mechanisms that would decouple utility revenues from electricity sales.
“Decoupling will help keep the elec... Read More »