Energy
Tucson Electric Power rate hike heads to Arizona vote Nov. 17
Arizona utility regulators are set to vote November 17 on a Tucson Electric Power rate increase, along with a new mechanism that…
Energy
Grids, renewables, and the policies and investments powering the energy transition.
Energy
A Wisconsin utility bill carries $1 billion in shuttered power plants nobody uses, but regulators blocked a bid to add data center costs on top of it
A switchyard outside Milwaukee still hums with equipment tied to power plants that stopped running years ago.Nobody draws electricity from them anymore.Yet…
Energy
Iceland curbs data center power as hydro and geothermal capacity tightens
Iceland's state-owned power company Landsvirkjun is throttling electricity supply to data centers as hydro and geothermal capacity fails to keep pace with…
Energy
An enhanced geothermal well gets stimulated with up to 10 million gallons of water before it ever makes power, yet several percent of every injection simply vanishes underground for good
A drilling pad in the high desert hums with pumps pushing water down a well casing thousands of feet into hot rock.Hoses…
Energy
Connecticut picks AmpUp to scale shared EV charging program after heatwave test
Connecticut utility regulators have chosen a managed charging platform built by AmpUp to advance toward statewide deployment after an 18-month pilot showed…
Energy
A Maryland utility grew its automated EV charging program from 6,900 drivers to 30,000, and regulators approved the expansion as a permanent, grid-wide offering
A driveway charger blinks green at midnight while the driver sleeps, and nobody in the house touched a single setting to make…
Energy
AMPS Solar plans 600 jobs at new Hanford, California plant
A California solar company is converting a shuttered Central Valley tomato processing plant into a new module manufacturing facility, part of a…
Energy
A Georgia plant is built to tear apart 5 gigawatts of dead solar panels a year, and the factory going up next door will turn that scrap glass into brand new solar glass
A forklift rolls a pallet of sun bleached solar panels toward a conveyor belt in rural Georgia.Within seconds, a machine starts peeling…
Energy
Battery storage queue backlog remains above 2,000 gigawatts despite FERC reforms
The queue of generation and storage projects awaiting permission to connect to the US electric grid remains above 2,000 gigawatts nationwide, according…
Energy
Texas batteries discharged a record 4,600 megawatts at once during a February cold snap, and the grid’s increasingly fast-reacting storage fleet is reshaping how Texas avoids its worst winter price spikes
A cold front rolled across Texas one February morning, and furnaces across the state kicked on at once, yanking demand upward in…
Energy
Virginia regulators’ staff recommend denying Dominion-NextEra merger as proposed
Staff at the Virginia State Corporation Commission have recommended against approving the proposed merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy as currently…
Energy
A Virginia utility fuel bill climbed 152 percent to $4.4 billion in five years, and regulators let it spread $922 million of that gap across seven years of monthly charges
A single line on a Virginia power bill, the one marked fuel, usually changes by pocket change from month to month. This…