The electricity industry will participate in the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) fifth grid security exercise known as GridEx on Nov. 13 and 14, an event that allows utilities to test how they would respond to and recover from simulated coordinated cyber and physical threa... Read More »
ORLANDO — Utilities are advancing their existing voluntary sustainability programs for natural gas, said executives at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Financial Conference held here on Nov. 10-12.
“Really, we’re a pipes and wires company but we call ourselves a clean energy transition c... Read More »
Black Hills Corporation announced it expected the company to spend $2.9 billion on capital investments through 2023 as it establishes new transmission lines, invests more heavily in renewables and navigates regulatory consolidation.
A natural gas and electric utility company that serves 1.2 milli... Read More »
Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) Chairman and CEO John McAvoy discussed the New York-based utility’s investments in infrastructure, transition to renewable energy, and its planned rate hike at the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) Financial Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday.
Con Edison deli... Read More »
An Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing conducted last week examined Alaska offshore energy reserves as well as federal revenues received from energy development as well as programs that share those revenues with state, local, and tribal governments.
The hearing, chaired by U.S. Sen. Li... Read More »
At its seventh annual conference and expo, Energy Storage North America (ESNA) last week announced the winners of its innovation and champion awards, inducting them into the organization’s hall of fame.
Based on public, online voting, the ESNA sought innovators in the fields of front-of-meter s... Read More »
ORLANDO — The customer is king and America’s electric companies have widened their customer-centric approach to develop and maintain strategies that enable them to continue providing customers with a 24/7, 365 days experience, while also addressing investors’ demand for growth, executives said... Read More »
ORLANDO — Several significant impacts to individual energy companies, as well as to the industry during the next decade, will include resiliency, affordability, cybersecurity, regulations, and renewables, to name a few, according to a panel of chief financial officers (CFOs) from four large power ... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $128 million to fund 75 research projects to advance solar technologies.
The grants, awarded through the DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, will advance research and development in photovoltaics (PV), c... Read More »
The AES Corporation announced yesterday that it entered into a 10-year strategic alliance with Google to accelerate the expansion and adoption of clean energy by leveraging Google Cloud technology.
This alliance builds on the recent agreement between Google and AES to provide long-term renewable ... Read More »