The New York Power Authority is leading a study to validate a technique that could potentially help the utility industry digitally monitor transformers to better detect problems without taking the units out of service, it said on Feb.22.

The Reading Municipal Light Department on Feb. 23 announced the acceleration of its decarbonization efforts through the recent update to Policy 30 and accelerated retirement of non-carbon certificates.

A Texas judge on Feb. 23 granted a temporary restraining order in a proceeding involving the Energy Information Administration’s recently announced plan to collect data tied to the electricity consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining activity.

Arevon Energy Inc. on Feb. 21 announced that it has secured more than $1 billion in aggregate financing commitments for its Eland 2 Solar-plus-Storage Project in Kern County, California.

Platte River Power Authority recently issued an all-dispatchable resources request for proposals to help firm its increasingly renewable energy portfolio.

Operators plan to retire 5.2 gigawatts of U.S. electric generating capacity in 2024, a 62% decrease from last year when 13.5 GW was retired and the least in any year since 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration’s latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory.