Category: Electric Utility

May 11, 2022

Slimming down its operations to improve the bottom line by focusing on transmission and distribution and separating out its generation assets had a small impact on Exelon’s net income in the first quarter of 2022. The change lowered first-quarter earnings […]

May 6, 2022

Comerica Bank announced today the expansion of its Environmental Services Department (ESD) with the introduction of a new group dedicated to growing and supporting Comerica’s renewable energy business. Matt Breight, Senior Vice President and ESD Group Manager, has been appointed […]

May 6, 2022

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) over the past week separately expressed concerns about power supply uncertainties in the face of upcoming warmer-than-normal temperatures. MISO raised an alarm on April 28 when […]

May 3, 2022

The objective of the MOU is to collaborate and formalize a long-term strategic partnership for the deployment of Energy Vault’s EVx™ gravity-based energy storage technology and software solutions based on the outcome of a joint feasibility study. The technology also […]

April 29, 2022

AEP expects to spend about $8.2 billion from 2022 through 2026 as part of its plan to shift its generating fleet to about half renewable energy by the end of the decade, according to the Columbus, Ohio-based company’s earnings presentation. […]

April 29, 2022

One of the latest companies to further a partnership with the University of Nevada Reno’s Nevada Center for Applied Research (NCAR) and locate its research and development on campus is American Battery Technology Company (ABTC). NCAR provides industry and entrepreneurs […]

April 19, 2022

While adoption of NREL’s online solar permitting platform SolarAPP+ remains concentrated in California and Arizona, it’s success to date in those areas demonstrates the potential of automated permitting, according to software developer Accela. Released in May 2021, SolarAPP+ enables solar […]

April 14, 2022

A study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows more than 1.1 TW of solar and energy storage capacity were in the U.S. power grid’s interconnection queue at the end of 2021. Notably, that total is more […]

April 1, 2022

The energy transition encompasses many aspects of power generation, with a common theme of finding the most efficient way to produce electricity while minimizing costs. Other factors, though, are impacting today’s decisions about how this energy is produced, and how […]

March 21, 2022

The United States (US) power grids are at the center of a significant transformation that will ultimately lead to the decarbonization of all economic sectors, the increase of distributed renewable generation and the electrification of consumption. In this context, the […]