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Scaling Clean: Assessing Market Options for Clean Energy & Capacity in PJM

March 10, 2022 admin clean power, pjm, rmi, Solar energy, utilities, wind energy

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:53:50 +0000

Scaling Clean: This report draws on original RMI analysis as well as extensive discussions with PJM states, utilities, customers, and clean energy developers. Spurred by state decarbonization policy, strong customer demand, and rapidly improving technology, carbon-free energy is playing a growing role in PJM, the United States’ largest wholesale electricity market. However, the pace of […]

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Entergy Louisiana Customers To Pay $3.2 Billion For Storm Repairs While CEO Gets $4 Million Raise

February 26, 2022 admin entergy, entergy louisiana, grid, Louisiana, utilities

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 04:40:21 +0000

Entergy Louisiana will start billing customers statewide $3.2 billion for repairs after five hurricanes in 2020 and 2021. The utility company doesn’t have to pay a dime toward those repairs and its CEO even gets a $4 million pay raise. Meanwhile, all of Entergy’s customers in the state — even those who didn’t have any […]

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What’s A Gas Utility Without Gas?

February 10, 2022 admin Fossil Fuels, market research, natural gas, philadelphia, philadelphia gas works, policy research, research, SCIENCE, utilities

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:51:20 +0000

The Philadelphia City Council will hold a public hearing this week to discuss the future of Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW), the country’s largest municipally owned gas utility. The hearings follow the release of the highly anticipated PGW Business Diversification Study in December, which explored several decarbonization pathways and business implications for the utility under Philadelphia’s 2050 Carbon neutrality […]

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California Utilities Shutting Off Power For Fewer People, But Too Many Still In The Dark

February 6, 2022 admin California, grid, research, san diego gas & electric (sdg&e), southern california edison (sce), utilities

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:44:38 +0000

It was only a few years ago when millions of Californians had their power shut off to prevent grid infrastructure from sparking wildfires. It was 2019, and California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), wasn’t taking any chances. Just a year before, its equipment ignited the Camp Fire, the deadliest fire in California history, and PG&E went into […]

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Utilities’ Carbon-Reduction Goals Will Have Little Impact On U.S. CO2 Emissions

February 5, 2022 admin annual energy outlook, annual energy outlook 2021, climate change, grid, policy research, research, SCIENCE, utilities

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 23:27:45 +0000

Executing several plans announced by U.S. power utilities to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would have a minor effect on U.S. energy-related CO2 reductions, according to the analysis we published earlier this week. As part of the Annual Energy Outlook 2021 (AEO2021), we created a Corporate Goal case that incorporates assumptions based on carbon-reduction goals outlined in […]

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Humongous Tesla Battery Plant Approved In California Is 10× Bigger Than World’s Biggest Battery Plant

February 27, 2020 admin batteries, California, clean power, Energy Storage, grid, grid storage, lithium-ion batteries, monterey county, monterey county planning commission, moss landing, PG&E, policy & politics, Silicon Valley, Solar energy, tesla, tesla batteries, tesla energy, tesla megapack, utilities, wind energy

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:45:02 +0000

Tesla has been approved to reinvent the Moss Landing power plant in California as a battery power plant. In fact, it will be approximately 10× bigger than Tesla’s Hornsdale, which was 3× bigger than any other battery storage facility at the time it was built

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Electrify America Invests In Sacramento-Area Energy Storage Program

February 5, 2020 admin batteries, California, carsharing, clean transport, consumer technology, diesel emissions scandal, Electric vehicles, electrify america, electrify america green city initiative, Energy Storage, envoy, envoy car sharing, envoy technologies, ev charging, ev charging station energy storage, ev charging stations, ev superfast charging, free float car sharing, gig car share, grid, grid storage, lithium-ion batteries, Sacramento, sacramento municipal utility district, smud, superfast charging, tesla, tesla powerpacks, ultra-fast charging stations, utilities, Volkswagen, volkswagen diesel emissions scandal

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:03:36 +0000

In Sacramento — as part of a deal with the local utility, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — Electrify America is putting $1.3 million into SMUD’s Energy StorageShares program

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Cleantech at the Urban Future Lab — Cleantech Talk with Pat Sapinsley

November 14, 2019 admin acre, batteries, clean power, clean start program, clean transport, cleantech talk, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, INTERVIEWS, investment, lithium-ion batteries, New York, new york university, nyu, nyu tandon school of engineering, pat sapinsley, podcasts, policy & politics, powerbridgeny, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, urban future lab, utilities

Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:50:48 +0000

In this episode of our Cleantech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Pat Sapinsley, Managing Director of Cleantech Initiatives at the Urban Future Lab / ACRE at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, to talk about her work

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Utilities & Transit Poorly Positioned For Low-Carbon Transformation – Part 3

November 8, 2019 admin air quality, bc translink, Canada, clean power, clean transport, climate change, duke energy, Electric vehicles, ev charging, green economy, green jobs, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, Solar energy, transit, United States, utilities, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:00:54 +0000

Utilities and transit are expected to transform at accelerated rates over the next 10 and 20 years to achieve the carbon-emission reduction goals necessary for minimizing global impacts of climate change. They need help to do so

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Exelon Utilities’ CEO Retires as Federal Investigation Continues

October 15, 2019 admin anne pramaggiore, baltimore gas & electric, Business, calvin butler, Coal, Exelon, Gas, Illinois, investigation, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Lobbying, news, Nuclear, Renewables, utilities

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:35:34 +0000

The post Exelon Utilities’ CEO Retires as Federal Investigation Continues appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The CEO of major U.S. energy company Exelon Utilities retired on Oct. 15, leaving the company as federal officials investigate Exelon’s lobbying activities the Illinois State Capitol. The retirement of Anne Pramaggiore, 61, who became CEO of Exelon Utilities in 2018, comes less than a week after Exelon subsidiary Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), Illinois’ largest utility, […]

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