State regulators approve Georgia Power's plans to retire all coal plants by 2028 except for Plant Bowen

The state’s Public Service Commission voted to decide the retirement of the remaining two units at Plant Bowen, totaling nearly 1,600 MW, in the utility’s 2025 IRP proceeding.

By Iulia Gheorghiu • July 22, 2022

Green hydrogen prices have nearly tripled as energy costs climb: S&P

Prices for both renewable and conventional hydrogen have exceeded $10/kg in recent months in response to volatile energy markets, S&P Global Commodity Insights analysts said.

By Emma Penrod • July 21, 2022

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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

In move to expand renewable natural gas, BlackRock fund buys Vanguard Renewables

The Massachusetts-based company, known for farm-based projects, aspires to have 100 anaerobic digesters by 2026. This new investment comes as renewable natural gas projects are increasingly popular.

By Cole Rosengren • July 21, 2022

Biden boosts offshore wind, resilience program, but balks at climate emergency declaration

With a dim congressional outlook for climate action, President Joe Biden said Wednesday he planned to do more soon through proclamations, executive orders and regulatory actions.

By Ethan Howland • July 21, 2022

Bureau of Land Management OKs construction start for 500-MW Oberon Solar Project in California

The project is part of a BLM and state partnership to create a 22.5-million-acre renewable energy zone over seven counties in the Mojave and Colorado deserts.

By Julie Strupp • July 20, 2022

Unleashing the economic power and reliability potential of West Coast offshore wind

Offshore wind can have significant reliability, economic and climate benefits, but policy action is needed now, the authors write.

By Mike O’Boyle and Michelle Solomon • July 19, 2022

Pattern Energy buys 3-GW SunZia transmission project to deliver wind energy from New Mexico to Arizona

Pattern Energy said Monday it is developing another transmission project to connect New Mexico with Texas.

By Ethan Howland • July 18, 2022

Pending copper shortfall threatens energy transition, greenhouse gas reduction goals: S&P Global

Even assuming record levels of mining and recycling, there won’t be enough copper to meet the needs of electric vehicles and other components of the energy transition, according to a report released Thursday.

By Ethan Howland • July 15, 2022

US renewable PPA prices up nearly 30% year over year despite two-year solar tariff moratorium

After two years of rising prices, power purchase agreements are unlikely to return to pre-2020 lows, a LevelTen senior director said, but corporations are still flocking to buy renewable energy.

By Emma Penrod • July 15, 2022

Manchin refuses to support new climate spending, likely tanking clean energy package

Clean energy advocates took the news hard. Manchin will go down as “the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity,” said John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress.

By Robert Walton • July 15, 2022

BLM approves construction for Starwood's 3.2 GW Arizona-to-California transmission line

The 500-kV Ten West Link project is expected to provide market access to solar projects in the Southwest.

By Ethan Howland • July 15, 2022

New Mississippi rule requires utilities to pay low-income customers up front for solar installations

Mississippi Power Co. will offer up to $5 million a year in rebates and Entergy Mississippi will have a $10 million budget for rooftop solar rebates, of which 50% must go to low-income customers.

By Emma Penrod • July 14, 2022

6 offshore wind lease areas in the New York Bight get first Interior Department regional analysis

In developing all environmental impact statements at the same time, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s process will allow more developers to advance their projects in a timely manner.

By Iulia Gheorghiu • July 14, 2022

Illinois issues draft renewable energy access plan to prioritize equity in the energy transition

The plan must prioritize the closure of fossil fuel power plants near environmental justice communities and identify attractive areas for renewable energy development, among other elements.

By Larry Pearl • July 14, 2022

Texas narrowly avoids rolling blackouts after 2nd conservation plea by ERCOT this week

Gas and coal outages were higher than the Texas grid operator had anticipated. “The thermal fleet is not as reliable as people would have you think,” said Grid Lab Executive Director Ric O’Connell.

By Robert Walton • July 14, 2022

Nuclear industry applauds Tennessee Valley Authority request for 5 GW of clean energy by 2029

The federal power provider says it is “one of the largest clean energy procurement requests in the nation.”

By Robert Walton • July 13, 2022

Plan to share local clean-energy-related transmission costs across New York sparks mixed reviews

The proposal will help the state meet its clean energy goals, according to the New York Public Service Commission, but LS Power said it will stifle competition.

By Ethan Howland • July 13, 2022

Exelon, PG&E, PSEG and others call on Congress to pass 'ambitious' clean energy spending package

Hundreds of companies, including utilities, solar companies and storage developers, want Congress to authorize major investments in clean energy and energy efficiency.

By Robert Walton • July 13, 2022

Reliance on China made solar PV affordable but created 'imbalanced' supply chains, IEA says

The solar industry is already experiencing the consequences of concentrating its manufacturing capacity not only within a single nation, but within a handful of critical facilities, an IEA report finds.

By Emma Penrod • July 12, 2022

High energy prices, Ukraine war and rising demand response potential spur energy efficiency efforts

New energy efficiency as demand response opportunities can meet customer and system needs as well as set the EU and the world free from both Russian energy and stopgap coal burning, International Energy Agency leaders said.

By Herman K. Trabish • July 11, 2022

Battery prices to rise for first time since 2010, slowing EV adoption: BNEF

The costs to build and operate new onshore wind and solar resources have also risen in the past year but overall remain cheaper than those costs for fossil fuel resources, according to BloombergNEF.

By Robert Walton • July 11, 2022

Utilities need robust energy market data to navigate renewable energy's rapid growth

Robust market data is essential for utilities and independent power producers that own and operate solar, wind and other generation facilities in wholesale electricity markets.

July 11, 2022

Idaho Power kicks off process to consider net metering study

Regulators must assess the study as a “credible and fair” analysis before the utility proposes changes to net metering, but environmental advocates see the effort as a path for Idaho Power to restrict distributed solar. 

By Iulia Gheorghiu • Updated July 7, 2022

Hawaii poised to close the door on coal despite delays to clean energy projects

The state is turning to a mix of demand response efforts, distributed energy resources and utility-scale renewable energy projects to keep the lights on after its last coal plant retires in September. 

By Kavya Balaraman • July 6, 2022

DOE seeks input on how to divide $630M in infrastructure law hydropower funding

The bipartisan infrastructure law stipulates the $630 million should go to hydroelectric capital improvements and job creation, but it leaves several questions unanswered, according to the agency.

By Emma Penrod • July 5, 2022