Top news Deputy EPA Administrator nominee Andrew Wheeler told senators he saw a Murray Energy plan submitted to the White House to revive the coal sector and attended two meetings to craft its contents into the Department of Energy's cost recovery proposal.
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Duke, Southern and Dominion are also reportedly lining up offers for the South Carolina public utility, put up for sale after the abandonment of the V.C. Summer nuclear reactor.
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Feature Story The National Energy Efficiency Registry will collect data with an eye towards improving measurement and verification of savings, ultimately boosting investments in reducing demand.
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Why is energy storage so important to managing ever-growing levels of distributed energy resources?
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The state's Public Utilities Commission slashed the utility's request to recover $1.76 billion in costs to retire Diablo Canyon nuclear facility to $190.4 million, potentially hurting plans to replace it with carbon-free resources.
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Previously credits could be bought from out-of-state sources but only sold in Pennsylvania, creating a glut of solar energy that depressed prices.
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The new updates could trim the net metering credits, usually set at the retail rate, by 30% in some service territories.
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The Massachusetts island is currently experiencing a rise in power demand and aging diesel generators, which provide partial backup power.
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The 2015 law driving the increase also called for a 50% raise in energy efficiency for existing buildings by 2030.
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Lawmakers say the complexities of hydropower licensing have created significant barriers that prevent investments in the resource.
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Feature Story The growing inclusion of storage in integrated resource plans is, to some extent, the next step in the evolution of the technology at utility-scale. |
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