New legislation from U.S. Sens. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) would establish an investment tax credit (ITC) for business and home use of energy storage.
Presently, no direct tax incentives address energy storage, despite its complementary nature for renewable energy sources like ... Read More »
A new initiative aiming to utilize the benefits of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as customer-produced solar energy for restoration and recovery purposes after severe storms, was recently launched by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
Led by LLNL research... Read More »
In an effort to find the most efficient way to add at least 1,200 megawatts of wind energy to the resource mix of a six-state service area by 2020, Rocky Mountain Power opened a competitive bidding process for wind projects last week.
The wind projects would generate roughly enough energy to pow... Read More »
New York-based energy company Consolidated Edison will continue to expand its footprint in clean energy, with plans to invest $1.25 billion in renewable energy production facilities over the next three years.
The company – which provides energy for New York City, Westchester, Orange, and Rockla... Read More »
A new project by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will seek to develop methods that can detect and counter cyber attacks on the grid related to solar inverters.
DOE awarded $2.5 million over three years to the project, which is one of 20 recently announced... Read More »
Ameren Missouri recently announced a plan to significantly increase its solar and wind capacity and reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent.
The Ameren Corporation subsidiary plans to add at least 700 megawatts (MW) of wind generation by 2020, an investment of approximately $1 billion. The com... Read More »
SolarCity Corp. has decided to end a five-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and — denying claims it overstated the costs of installing solar panels to receive overblown federal grant monies — has agreed to pay the government $29.5 million.
As part of the settlement, S... Read More »
MidAmerican Energy Company recently announced that it will upgrade hundreds of aging wind turbines and add additional wind energy sources through a definitive agreement with GE in order to bring cost savings to its Iowa-based customers.
The announcement follows a decision from the Iowa Utilities... Read More »
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) recently announced that New Jersey exceeded 80,000 operational solar projects with a combined installed solar energy capacity of more than 2.25 gigawatts (GW).
Approximately 94 percent of current solar capacity in the state was installed during th... Read More »
Soltage, LLC recently announced that the 4.75-megawatt (MW) Bird Machine Solar Farm located in Walpole, Massachusetts has been completed and is now in operation.
Built on a former industrial site, the new solar farm is comprised of 14,600 panels that will produce approximately six million kilowa... Read More »