Top news The agreement, set to be be announced at a summit Wednesday, would set a 50% goal for power from wind, solar, nuclear and hydro facilities. |
Feature Story As distributed resources transform the electric grid, regulators in every state are struggling to design fair rates that encourage innovation. More than 30 stakeholder groups have now come together to recommend a unified set of principles to guide those deliberations. |
Utility-scale solar just got less expensive and more efficient even in real world applications. |
Xcel Energy Inc.'s Prairie Island plant and Entergy Corp.'s Palisades facility could both be at risk, according to UBS Securities. |
Most of the revenue will go towards bolstering the PG&E's gas distribution network. Meanwhile, the CPUC set aside monies for Southern California Gas Company to improve its underground storage facilities in the wake of the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak. |
Florida Power & Light told regulators it will stop charging customers for one year for development of two new reactors at the Turkey Point nuclear plant ahead of a request for significant rate hikes. |
Efficiency partnerships are likely to be crucial for HECO as it strives to meet the state's 100% renewable energy mandate by 2045. |
California State University is looking to storage to cut peak demand and help mitigate for potential supply disruptions due to the nation's worst-ever methane leak. |
More than 70% of respondents in the 2016 Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Indicator survey expect to boost efficiency investments within the next year. |
Feature Story Electric vehicles can offer power services at bargain prices if charging is done when and where utilities need it, a new RMI report notes. But getting the grid to that point is easier said than done. |
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What We're Reading | ClimateWire via Scientific American |
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