The Department of Energy on Nov. 16 published a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment to amend its implementing procedures governing compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act that would impact certain transmission, solar and energy storage projects.

The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors recently voted to establish an Infrastructure Committee, signaling a proactive approach to ensuring investment in the region’s water and power infrastructure, IID said.

When they started using TextPower for outage notifications, utility managers for the City of Gastonia in North Carolina could not foresee the multiple ways in which the service would grow.

Environmental attribute credits are effective at supporting investment in and the development of renewable energy resources, according to a paper by researchers in the Clean Energy Institute at the University of California, Irvine.

The average utilization rate for the entire U.S. fleet of combined-cycle natural gas turbine electric power plants has risen as the operating efficiency of new CCGT units has improved, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Nov. 20.

All large-scale solar energy facilities can now be found on a single map thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.