Daily edition | Dec. 4, 2019 Note from the editor In 2007, a tornado flattened a Kansas city of 1,500, killing 12 and bringing 95% of its buildings to rubble. The story gained the attention of national media as well as the Department of Energy, whose renewables and energy efficiency arm saw the tragedy as an opportunity to prove the resilience and cost effectiveness of efficient buildings and clean power.
Now, Greensburg sites 10 wind turbines totaling 12.5 MW and its energy efficiency measures save the city of just under 800 people $200,000 annually.
This is the third in a four part series on cities that can claim they power 100% of their electricity from renewable resources. The first installment looked at Rock Port, Missouri, and the second at Georgetown, Texas.
Thanks for reading,
 Catherine Morehouse
Associate Editor, Utility Dive
Twitter | E-mail
Gaps in the utility's infrastructure maintenance were "indicative of an overall pattern of inadequate inspection and maintenance of PG&E's transmission facilities," according to a new report. |
Deep Dive The destruction wrought by a 2007 tornado gave the federal government an opportunity to build up a fully renewable town in a conservative part of the country. |
Federal regulators are proposing changes to the law for the first time since 2006. Some groups argue the move falls outside the commission's authority and will harm renewables in markets monopolized by utilities. |
Regulators said recent state legislation removed the need for a premium by eliminating wildfire risk exposure for investor-owned utilities. |
BP, Shell and several members of the Natural Gas Supply Association previously supported a carbon tax, prompting a new pledge from the group, though some environmental groups criticized the lack of details. |
While blackouts drive home storage sales, large-scale projects are expected to increasingly dominate U.S. energy storage, Wood Mackenzie reported in its latest Energy Storage Monitor. |
The operator says it is the first regional transmission organization to provide reliability coordinator services in the Eastern and Western interconnections. |
Environmental advocates project the standards will generate more than $8 billion in energy savings and avoid nearly 100 million tons of carbon emissions over the next 30 years. |
Bloomberg New Energy Finance projects that battery prices will soon hit levels that were unthinkable a decade ago. |
Deep Dive Advocates are pushing a "shared savings" approach to incentivize deployment, but system operators have doubts. |
 | A green hydrogen energy economy would support power system reliability, providing an appealing utility value proposition. Learn about dispatchable renewable energy for a lower-carbon utility future. |
|
What We're Reading  The New York Times |
 Greentech Media |
 Bloomberg Environment |
From Our Library
View all resources Dive Into a Topic | 
