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Favorable Attitudes Toward Smart Grid and Smart Meter Technology Increased in 2012

Favorable attitudes toward the concept of the smart grid in general, and toward smart meters in particular, increased noticeably in 2012.

May 21, 2013 / Transmission and Distribution World

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National Grid Unveils Future Home of Sustainability Hub

National Grid has unveiled plans for the future home of its Sustainability Hub, a 2,200 square-foot facility centrally located within the company’s smart grid pilot area in Worcester, Massachusetts.

May 21, 2013 / Transmission and Distribution World

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Chesapeake names new chief executive officer

Chesapeake Energy Corp., the second-largest producer of natural gas, has announced that Robert Douglas Lawler will join the company as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors on June 17.

May 21, 2013 / Power Engineering

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Siemens curtails global use of certain wind power turbines

Siemens has stated they are curtailing use of all turbines using the B53 blade after a blade broke off of one of the company’s SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines at the Ocotillo Wind project in California.

May 21, 2013 / Power Engineering

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More Mediation Tools for Shippers

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Search: More Mediation Tools for Shippers Arbitration, and not litigation, is the driving force behind rules that federal regulators hope will settle simmering disputes between freight railroads and shippers, including coal plant operators. The Surface Transportation Board a...

May 21, 2013 / Electric Co-Op Today - Regulatory Watch

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Trade groups team to promote solar and energy storage

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Electricity Storage Association formed a partnership to help grow solar developments and the deployment of grid-scale energy storage.

May 21, 2013 / Power Engineering

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Report: U.S. coal fired power generation expected to increase this year

Bernstein Research issued a report Monday expecting U.S. coal-fired power generation to increase this year because of higher natural gas prices, but that the trend will not continue as utilities find it less expensive to rely more on natural gas.

May 21, 2013 / Power Engineering

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Ernest Moniz Gives His First Speech as Energy Secretary

He wants to move efficiency “way, way up” on the Energy Department’s priorities. Stephen Lacey: May 21, 2013 Only three hours after getting sworn in as energy secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz went to the Washington convention center this afternoon to deliver his first speech in office. Secretary Moniz...

May 21, 2013 / AOL Energy

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Mississippi Power names new president and CEO

Mississippi Power elected G. Edison (Ed) Holland as president and CEO effective immediately after Ed Day announced his retirement.

May 21, 2013 / Power Engineering

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Coal-fired power plant fire injures three

A recent fire at the Laramie River Station coal-fired power plant near Wheatland, Wyo. injured three plant employees.

May 21, 2013 / Power Engineering

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