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The California Public Utilities Commission on Dec. 14 voted to conditionally allow Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to extend operations at the utility’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
The California Independent System Operator’s Board of Governors has approved an addendum to its 2022-2023 transmission plan to conditionally advance development of a 285-mile link in a transmission pathway that would deliver Idaho wind energy to California and the Southwest and enable investor-owned Idaho Power to import additional energy into its system.
The California Energy Commission on Dec. 13 approved a $30 million grant to Form Energy to build a long-duration energy storage project that will continuously discharge to the grid for 100 hours. The 5 megawatt/500 megawatt-hour iron-air battery storage project is the largest long-duration energy
Sharp increases in peak demand forecasts and the potential for higher generator retirements are raising concerns for electric reliability over the next 10 years, according to the latest Long-Term Reliability Assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.
A settlement agreement was filed on Dec. 14 in federal district court in Oregon that sets commitments made by the U.S. Government and implemented through a Memorandum of Understanding, “Columbia River Basin Restoration Initiative,” between the United States, the States of Oregon and Washington, the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama Tribes and environmental non-profit organizations.
Falling battery prices could result in the global electric vehicle market reaching cost parity, without subsidies, with internal combustion engine vehicles around the middle of the decade, according to Goldman Sachs Research.
The leader of Middleborough Gas and Electric in Massachusetts on the challenges and opportunities facing public power leaders.
Delorean Power LLC and Massachusetts-based Paxton Municipal Light Department recently announced a partnership on an energy storage project that will be owned and operated by Delorean.
The ability to efficiently recover from blackouts and effectively restart the electric power grid requires the natural gas and electric industries to more strongly collaborate and plan their efforts, according to a new study presented at a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meeting on Dec. 19. The
Salt River Project and NextEra Energy Resources have officially commissioned a 100-megawatt battery energy storage system to store the energy produced by a solar energy facility in Coolidge, Arizona.