Top news Pacific Gas and Electric will roll out 7,500 EV charging points and own 35%. |
Wind and solar are now well within the cost range of combined cycle plants, but still need generators or storage to support them on the grid. |
Feature Story Collaboration on corporate rate design makes Black Hills Energy "a banner for what utilities should be," but work remains to be done on renewables procurement. |
Voters rejected a carbon tax in last month's election, but the governor included a similar proposal in a draft of the state's two-year budget plan. |
Funding for the microgrid was left out of Illinois' mammoth energy bill, but ComEd says it will ask regulators to allow it to recover some of the costs. |
Opinion Post A new Berkeley Lab study shows significant potential for further turbine scaling, write LBNL researchers. |
But the draft trading rules will be available to the public, giving a glimpse of how the CPP might have worked. |
Environmental groups say the retrofit violates the spirit of a plan approved earlier this year to end fossil fuel use. |
Feature Story New technologies and looser regulations could help coal, attendees at PowerGen said last week, but many utilities have already made other generation plans. |
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