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In 2016, New Mexico’s Kit Carson Electric Cooperative left its long-standing power supply relationship with Colorado’s Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association behind. Kit Carson paid nearly $40 million to sever its relationship with Tri-State,…

The Trump administration has ended more than a year of delay in taking up the nomination of Democrat Allison Clements for a position on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a move that could bring more bipartisan balance to the agency’s 3-to-1…

Utility Arizona Public Service has completed its exhaustive study of the most high-profile U.S. grid battery fire. The company filed its report Monday with the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates the utility. The report, produced in collaboration…

FirstEnergy’s strong quarterly financial performance hasn’t saved it from a continued punishment on Wall Street, or CEO Charles Jones from spending much of an hourlong Friday earnings conference call defending the Ohio utility against implications of its…

The U.K.’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. National Grid's Future…

Microsoft has a new weapon for killing off diesel at its expanding global fleet of data centers: green hydrogen. The tech giant announced Monday that it recently powered a row of data center servers for 48 hours using nothing but hydrogen fuel cells, which it…

Building a technology platform to control distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar systems, behind-the-meter batteries, EV chargers and flexible electricity loads is a challenging enough task. Adding in ways to measure their economic value as…

A colossal Nevada data center will host the largest customer-sited solar-storage project in the world. Data center operator Switch plans to buy power for its record-breaking Citadel facility from an adjacent project developed and owned by Capital Dynamics. A…

Joe Biden recently released a plan to address climate change on a trillion-dollar scale. Along with focusing on rapid deployment of renewables, it also devotes resources to environmental justice, sustainable housing, clean transportation, and networking. But…

NextEra Energy is closing its last coal-fired power unit and investing in its first green hydrogen facility. Through its Florida Power & Light utility, NextEra will propose a $65 million pilot in the Sunshine state that will use a 20-megawatt electrolyzer to…

Rahul Kar is general manager and vice president for new energy at AutoGrid. **** The renewable energy industry is beginning to outgrow long-term power purchase agreements (PPA), and the trend is toward trading renewables shorter-term through wholesale markets…

A draft of the Democratic Party's 2020 platform made public this week outlined a buildout of wind and solar energy that would far outpace current projections, calling for the installation of 500 million solar panels in the next five years alongside 60,000 new…

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is calling for state lawmakers to “repeal and replace” a 2019 law directing more than a billion dollars in subsidies to nuclear power plants, after one of his senior staffers was linked to a nonprofit group that federal prosecutors…

Wisconsin-based utility Alliant Energy has joined the ranks of U.S. utilities pledging to zero out their net carbon emissions by mid-century. The company set an “aspiration” to reach net-zero carbon by 2050 and eliminate all coal power plants from its…

Coronavirus is reshaping the way we move around. Will we emerge from this pandemic with smarter planning? Or will it dismantle already-weakened public transportation systems? When economies across the world shut down all at once in March, the impact on…

It’s the oldest and the biggest of all the clean energy technologies, but hydro has an uncertain role in Europe’s decarbonization plans. Over the past five years Europe's base of conventional hydropower and pumped hydro capacity grew at about 1 percent a…

This article is an extract from Wood Mackenzie's report ‘The US solar trade barriers (almost) worked. But they won't any more’.  In January 2018, the U.S. government implemented Section 201 solar tariffs on imported cells and modules. After initial…

Few people have more experience working in modern Democratic politics than John Podesta. From Senate staffer to White House chief of staff, progressive think tank founder to presidential environmental policy counselor, campaign manager to climate action…

Tesla survived the throes of the coronavirus pandemic relatively unscathed, chalking up its fourth sequential quarterly profit for the first time on Wednesday. On the energy front, however, things were much more complicated: Tesla reported its worst-ever…

In 2020 California became the first state to require solar panels on the roofs of most new homes, a milestone for a residential solar industry that already enjoyed a healthy foothold in the state. But with implementation now underway, the state's building…