wind
Workforce
Workers at the Ravenswood Generating Station in New York will be trained to transition to work in the offshore wind industry under an agreement with a utility workers union and a joint venture that is developing an offshore wind project.
nuke
As the threats to the resilience and reliability of the electric power grid caused by extreme weather events rise, the advantages of small modular reactors are becoming more apparent.
grid
The PJM Interconnection on July 11 extended a Hot Weather Alert for its Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions through July 13 ahead of anticipated temperatures above 90 degrees.
grid
California public power utility Pasadena Water and Power is expanding its energy portfolio with 25 megawatts of geothermal energy.
ev
Wood Mackenzie estimates that the number of electric vehicle charging ports in the U.S. will reach close to 18 million by 2027, with most chargers in the residential category.
grid
The U.S. Department of Energy on July 6 announced nine states and three tribal nations as the third cohort to receive a combined total of $207.6 million in grid resilience state and tribal formula grants.
bill
Texas public power utility Lubbock Power & Light is lowering the power cost recovery factor portion of its electric rate for the summer.
transmission costs
Average interconnection costs for the Southwest Power Pool are stable for projects that complete all interconnection studies but have escalated sharply for projects that withdraw from the queue, according to a report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
storage
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on April 20 announced the completion of the first solar-plus-storage project by a municipality on Long Island, now operating in the Town of East Hampton.
Voters in El Paso, Texas, on May 6 will vote on a proposal that includes exploring the creation of a public power utility.