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The Sunshine State Projected to Take Over as Top-Ranked Residential Solar State in 2028

December 12, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean power, EDF, environmental defense fund, Florida, florida solar energy, fpl (florida power & light), grid, market research, nextera energy, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar panels, solar power plants, solar prices, utilities

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:40:57 +0000

Florida, the Sunshine State, has wide-open skies and plenty of light — everywhere. Unsurprisingly, Florida businesses and people continue to vote with their dollars in support of solar power. Florida has installed the second most solar power capacity in the country in 2024, only trailing Texas. According to new research, … [continued]

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Duke Energy Will Replace A Coal Generating Station With Battery Storage

December 7, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, clean power, Coal, duke energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, utilities

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:53:12 +0000

Duke Energy is beginning to embrace grid scale battery storage after dancing around the idea for many years.

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Navigating Rising Power Demand and Avoiding Vendor Limitations

November 21, 2024 admin AI, Commentary, EIA, hr, Management, mission critical, O&M, power, quality control, rimini street, roi, sustainability, trends, utilities

Credit to Author: Coy Wright| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:40:04 +0000

Utility companies are going headfirst into a whirlwind of challenges from increasing electricity demands and new sustainability initiatives, to meeting evolving customer expectations. Power demand in the U.S. is on […]

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The Best Way To Bring EV Charging To The Mass Market

November 7, 2024 admin building codes, California, clean transport, cleantech talk, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, INTERVIEWS, level 1 charging, level 2 charging, utilities

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:20:41 +0000

I recently spoke with Phillip Kobernick, Associate Director of Energy Programs at Peninsula Clean Energy, about a handful of EV matters. In particular, through his work at Peninsula Clean Energy and what they are doing there, we discussed effective EV policies and programs utilities and advocacy organizations can implement to advance … [continued]

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Digital Transformation: Fueling Solutions for Today’s Energy and Utilities’ Challenges

October 17, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, Commentary, compliance, digital transformation, digitization, Energy, energy demand, Instrumentation & Controls, machine learning, power, regulatory, Research and Development, sustainability, Technology, utilities

Credit to Author: Chris Lloyd| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:45:45 +0000

Energy and utilities companies are grappling with unprecedented challenges. With the cost of electricity surging by 28.5% in just five years, the average American now spends nearly $300 a month […]

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New Analysis Finds Substantial Value of Adding Up to 4-Hour Duration Batteries to Solar Or Wind Power Plants Located In Regions Facing Transmission Congestion

October 6, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, electric reliability council of texas (ercot), Energy Storage, ercot, green economy, grid, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, lithium-ion batteries, market research, research, Solar energy, utilities, wind energy

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:44:22 +0000

We are pleased to announce a new study that examines the value of adding batteries to wind and solar plants located in areas that face transmission congestion. We examine two types of areas facing transmission congestion. These areas represent portions of Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) or Independent System Operators (ISO) territory selected … [continued]

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California Adopts Nation’s First Deadlines for Utilities to Connect EV Chargers to the Grid

September 28, 2024 admin batteries, California, california public utilities commission, california public utilities commission (cpuc), clean transport, cpuc, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, nrdc, pacific gas and electric company, pacific gas and electric company (pg&e), PG&E, policy & politics, san diego gas & electric, SDG&E, Southern California Edison, southern california edison (sce), utilities

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:04:14 +0000

This action marks an important step in reducing delays that could undermine progress toward the state’s climate and air quality standards. But it doesn’t go far enough. The California Public Utilities Commission approved a new set of timelines to accelerate the connection of new residential buildings, commercial businesses, and electric … [continued]

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Gray Skies for U.S. Power Generation? Uncertainty and Turmoil on the Horizon

September 24, 2024 admin chevron, chevron deference, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, loper, power, power generation, raimondo, Supreme Court, utilities

Credit to Author: Timothy Riley| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:28:07 +0000

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision this past summer in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo marks a significant shift in administrative law by overturning the long-standing principle of Chevron deference, which […]

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Data Centers Might Be Catalyst for Modernizing U.S. Power Grid

September 24, 2024 admin Business, cobank, data centers, Infrastructure, news, power, Power Demand, power grid, T&D, utilities

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:04:25 +0000

Rapid growth in the U.S. data center market is ushering in a new era of power demand and testing the ability of electric utilities to keep pace with this surging […]

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