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Category: Electric Utility


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

South Fork Wind becomes first US utility-scale offshore wind farm to complete construction

March 18, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

South Fork Wind, a joint Eversource and Ørsted project, began construction in early 2022 and installed its first monopile foundation in June. The project isn’t fully complete, as commissioning is still ongoing, but it is the first utility-scale offshore wind […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Utilities, others lobby senators to block DOE’s distribution transformer efficiency rule

March 13, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

A coalition of electric utility, labor and other groups sent a letter to U.S. senators on March 5 asking them to support “compromise legislation” the groups say will help address a shortage of distribution system transformers while also improving the […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

California PUC community solar plan prompts debate over incentives for developers, low-income customers

March 7, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

Everybody wants to improve low-income households’ access to solar energy, Derek Chernow, western regional director for the CCSA, said. But he argues it’s hard to encourage low-income participation in projects that don’t exist, and that the current structure of community […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

IRA implementation is still suffering from regulatory uncertainty, executives say

March 1, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

“I think [the IRA] is going to be a little bit like Obamacare,” Whitehouse said. “To be a Republican you had to hate Obamacare, and you had to say that you wanted to repeal Obamacare, until a certain tipping point […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

How utilities can unleash the power of orchestration through virtual power plants

February 29, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

The clean energy transition is progressing globally, with virtual power plants, which are aggregations of managed energy resources such as rooftop solar and storage, poised to emerge as a critical resource. Between 2023 and 2030, U.S. electricity demand may increase […]


Electric Utility, Miscellaneous, Public Utilities

Advancing energy justice: A new paradigm in grid equity and reliability analysis

February 26, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

The electric industry is in the midst of a fundamental transition toward clean energy driven by economics and the need to decarbonize the economy. Renewable energy has supplanted fossil fuels as the most economic source of energy. As technology for […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Avangrid, other utilities urge FERC to reject ‘false’ claims of insufficient transmission cost reviews

February 23, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

New England utilities — including Eversource, National Grid and Avangrid subsidiaries — and state ratepayer advocates are at odds over a challenge to the way the region reviews and builds transmission projects to replace or upgrade existing infrastructure, called “asset […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Virginia clean energy competition bill faces uncertain fate after collapsed negotiations

February 15, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

“In particular, we were concerned about the infeasibility and cost of increasing the distributed solar carve-out. This would have added hundreds of millions of dollars a year in new costs onto our customers,” Ruby said in an email. “We worked […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

State utility regulators urge PJM, MISO to bolster joint interregional transmission planning

February 14, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

State utility regulators are urging the PJM Interconnection and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator to bolster joint long-term interregional transmission planning between their footprints. “The transition from dispatchable thermal generators to intermittent, clean energy resources, and a surge in electric […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

The hidden costs of competition over new transmission infrastructure

February 14, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

Americans need power, and whether that electricity is supplied by traditional hydrocarbons or renewable technology, it must be transported through the long-distance high-voltage transmission lines that comprise the backbone of the energy grid. Whichever power source makes up this mix […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Utility Business Outlook: Power prices stay elevated as elections sow uncertainty for clean energy plans

January 23, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

Last year was a challenging one for electric utilities: Share prices lagged broader market gains, supply chain constraints added costs and time to renewable energy projects, and electricity prices continued a 3-year rise. What does 2024 have in store for […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Apex Clean Energy enters joint venture to own U.S. energy storage projects

January 22, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

Under the new joint venture — funded 60% by SK and 40% by Apex — the latter will oversee the construction and operations of the Great Kiskadee project, as well as future energy storage projects it will own. By combining […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Utilities’ misguided opposition to community solar in California

January 10, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

With billions on the line from the federal government and the potential for renters and disadvantaged communities to finally access clean, affordable solar energy, California’s three largest utilities are actively working to stop the California Public Utilities Commission from issuing […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Puget Sound Energy, Form Energy explore 10-MW, 100-hour iron-air battery pilot

January 9, 2024

Via: Utility Dive

Washington law requires the state’s electric utilities to entirely abandon coal by 2025, achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, and use 100% renewable and non-emitting resources by 2045. For utilities looking to replace dispatchable fossil fuel generation, as well as meet […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Biomass to Energy: How One Agriculture Waste Solution is Generating Renewable Power

January 3, 2024

Via: Waste360

When VGrid Energy Systems hung its shingle, its plan was to sell renewable power sourced from agricultural waste to the grid. That plan has swung into play, but the California company’s team soon learned they could make more than clean […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

The POWER Interview: Innovation, Data-Driven Solar Solutions Key to Grid Stability

December 18, 2023

Via: PowerMag

Growth in the solar power sector is being driven not only by ever-larger utility-scale farms, but also by growth in distributed generation. This smaller-scale use of solar energy is being supported as more homeowners and commercial and industrial (C&I) businesses […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

US utility-scale solar deployments jumped 107% year over year in Q3: S&P Global

December 6, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

The two largest projects completed in the third quarter and connected to the grid were both 500 MW — an Enel Group project in Texas, and a NextEra project in Nevada, according to S&P Global. S&P Global also noted an […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

The energy storage space is heating up. Here are some of the technologies making a dent.

December 5, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

Achieving the Biden administration’s goal of decarbonizing the power sector by 2035 will require a slew of energy storage technologies beyond just lithium-ion batteries, and multiple players are bringing new technology solutions to the market to fill that gap. Lithium-ion […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Why utilities can’t afford to ignore stored solar panels

December 4, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

For more than a decade, the solar industry has rightfully focused on one objective: driving down the price of solar energy to make it an affordable, mainstream option for residents and businesses. In many ways, the industry has succeeded beyond […]


Electric Utility, Public Utilities

Utility regulators urge PJM to move away from ‘reactive’ planning for grid reliability

November 30, 2023

Via: Utility Dive

OPSI’s letter to PJM comes as the grid operator’s board is expected to vote at a Dec. 11 meeting on a roughly $5 billion package of transmission projects that are needed in response to data center load growth and power […]