Skylar Resources brings 2 MW storage system online for California muni

Glendale Water & Power says the energy storage system will delay the need for infrastructure upgrades. 

By Peter Maloney • July 12, 2017

Both sides in nuke subsidy battles see Allco decision bolstering their case

Allco v. Klee was the first time a federal court has applied the Supreme Court's Hughes v. Talen ruling, but how it affects legal cases over ZECs depends on where you stand. 

By Peter Maloney • July 12, 2017

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Sustainability

Companies are pursuing increasingly ambitous sustainability goals around clean energy, but integrating rising amounts of renewables, minimizing environmental impacts, and achieving carbon reduction targets can be challenging.

By Utility Dive staff

After sector outcry, Massachusetts energy chief defends 200 MWh storage target

Some storage interests expected a higher target, but DOER defends it as a first step in a comprehensive plan

By Peter Maloney • July 11, 2017

Competitive electricity retailing: Why restructuring must go on

Power consultant Erik Desrosiers offers five steps regulators can take to get electricity deregulation back on track.

By Erik Desrosiers • July 11, 2017

Westar, Great Plains Energy revise merger proposal to appease regulatory concerns

Kansas regulators unanimously rejected the deal in April, but both utilities revised the terms of the deal to create a company with a combined equity value of $14 billion. 

By Peter Maloney • July 11, 2017

DC Circuit remands FERC order over PJM's proposed tweaks to minimum offer price rule

The court ruled FERC exceeded its Federal Power Act authority when the agency rejected PJM's proposed revisions to its minimum offer price rule. 

By Robert Walton • July 11, 2017

How wholesale power markets and state environmental policies can work together

Analysts from The Brattle Group lay out three paths for making state energy goals work in electricity markets.

By Sam Newell, Johannes Pfeifenberger, Judy Chang and Kathleen Spees • July 10, 2017

In Illinois, cloud computing debate could open next chapter of utility rate reform

Changes sought to the financial treatment of cloud computing could be applied to energy efficiency and other resources. 

By Herman K. Trabish • July 10, 2017

District of Columbia regulators seek to enhance retail energy consumer protections

Distributed generation could be included in the city's definition of a retail energy supplier, but regulators will tackle that question in its grid modernization proceeding.   

By Robert Walton • July 10, 2017

California bill seeks to help local governments permit storage systems

AB 546 would direct cities to create online resources for permitting energy storage systems and establish limits on what communities can charge for permits.  

By Peter Maloney • July 10, 2017

Center of the storm: PJM CEO Andy Ott on power market reforms for turbulent times

Ott spoke to Utility Dive about leading PJM's push to reform its operations and pricing for the new energy economy.

By Gavin Bade • July 7, 2017

Mississippi regulators make it official: Kemper will run on natural gas

The PSC ordered Mississippi Power to file a settlement for the facility to run as a natural gas plant, marking an end to the ambitious coal gasification project.   

By Peter Maloney • July 7, 2017

AES closes $2B financing for 1.2 GW gas plant with storage

Southern California Edison signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for the project awarded through a 2014 competitive solicitation.

By Peter Maloney • July 7, 2017

Lessons from Nevada's rooftop solar victory: Consumer demand and collaboration

Sunrun's Chief Policy Officer Anne Hoskins offers insight into Nevada's decision to restore net metering close to the retail rate. 

By Anne Hoskins • July 6, 2017

Oregon lawmakers nix rooftop solar tax credits

State lawmakers failed to included an extension of the rooftop solar tax credit in a budget sent to the full legislature this week.

By Krysti Shallenberger • July 6, 2017

Utility regulation in the Anthropocene

Energy Innovation's Sonia Aggarwal on now regulators can guide the power sector to a sustainable future.

By Sonia Aggarwal • July 6, 2017

North Carolina wind moratorium threatens hard-won solar compromise

Duke Energy and solar advocates worked for months on reforms to PURPA, third-party ownership and net metering. A last-minute hold on new wind projects could unravel the whole bill. 

By Herman K. Trabish • July 6, 2017

Virginia expands review of Atlantic Coast, Mountain Valley pipelines

The Virginia D​epartment of Environmental Quality will hold five public hearings in August on the controversial gas pipelines.

By Robert Walton • July 6, 2017

Hawaiian Electric proposes new, cheaper grid modernization plan

A previous grid modernization plan was rejected in December for being too costly.

By Peter Maloney • July 6, 2017

NEI: Nuclear plants not 'penetrated' by cyberattacks

A DHS and FBI joint report last week said nuclear reactors were among the targets of a hacking campaign that dated back to May.

By Peter Maloney • July 6, 2017

Pressed duck: Clipping the curve with energy storage

Building on Arizona's cheap solar-plus-storage PPA could present a new way to mitigate the duck curve, but the utility that signed it is skeptical. 

By Peter Maloney • July 5, 2017

Keys to developing an effective utility EV charging program

ChargePoint's Dave Packard argues simplicity and customer choice are critical elements for utilities building out electric vehicle charging networks. 

By Dave Packard • July 5, 2017

After Kemper, new 'clean coal' plants face long odds

Carbon capture technology works, but new plants are unlikely while gas prices are low and carbon remains unregulated.

By Peter Maloney • July 5, 2017

Report: Pruitt leading formal EPA review of climate science

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will use "red team, blue team" exercises to conduct a lengthy review of climate science, E&E News reports, potentially culminating in a challenge to the 2009 carbon endangerment finding. 

By Gavin Bade • June 30, 2017

Massachusetts targets 200 MWh of energy storage by 2020

The state passed an energy storage mandate more than a year ago and told energy regulators to craft the final target. 

By Krysti Shallenberger • June 30, 2017