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Biden $1.5 trillion budget proposal includes 27% increase in overall clean energy spending
The proposed budget would ramp up spending on new technologies, including advanced nuclear and hydrogen.
By Catherine Morehouse • April 12, 2021 -
Opinion
Putting the 'E' back in ESG: Lessons from the field
To make environmental, social and governance investments more of a mandate than a moment, there needs to be a way to track and verify their impact, particularly for climate-related investments, the author writes.
By Bob Hinkle • April 12, 2021 -
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Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources.
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How Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan could boost California's energy transition
Transmission investments could help California address reliability challenges and utility wildfire risk, experts say.
By Kavya Balaraman • April 6, 2021 -
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Local governments set record for new renewable energy procurement in 2020, groups report
Transactions last year grew renewable capacity 23% from 2019's totals, according to World Resources Institute and Rocky Mountain Institute data.
By Chris Teale • April 6, 2021 -
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OpinionWhat a federal just transition strategy should look like
The transition to a low-carbon economy is a national — even global — phenomena and the response should be too, contributors from the World Resources Institute wrote.
By Jillian Neuberger and Devashree Saha • April 5, 2021 -
Biden $2 trillion infrastructure proposal includes billions in spending on transmission, clean energy
The plan received wide-ranging support from climate and clean energy groups, but Republican leadership opposes its high price tag.
By Catherine Morehouse • April 1, 2021 -
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State of the Electric Utility 2021
The 8th annual State of the Electric Utility Survey Report provides a pulse on industry trends from nearly 500 utility professionals, many at the VP level and above, along with insight from a broad range of industry experts.
By Nami Sumida • April 1, 2021 -
Deep Dive
State of the Electric Utility 2021: Gas doubts rise, DER focus wanes, and 5 other key takeaways
Despite the impacts of COVID-19, the energy transition is stronger than ever, the results of Utility Dive's 8th annual industry survey show.
By Larry Pearl • April 1, 2021 -
Large consumers blame renewables for 2020 declines in C&I power reliability
A new survey finds 44% of companies lose power monthly or more frequently, and the problem is getting worse.
By Robert Walton • March 31, 2021 -
RMI sees potential to de-risk municipal power acquisition in PPAs
Municipalities have only recently entered the PPA market in force, according to RMI, but PPAs could offer some unique benefits to cities and towns.
By Emma Penrod • March 30, 2021 -
Opinion
Decarbonization requires more access to and consensus around energy data
There is a need for more data to better track and quantify progress toward decarbonization, the author writes.
By Ben Gerber • March 30, 2021 -
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What's the biggest role for hydrogen in a clean energy economy? It depends who you ask
Hydrogen could play multiple roles in the clean energy transition, from decarbonizing heavy industry to expanding energy storage, industry experts agree. But visions diverge around questions of use and distribution.
By Emma Penrod • March 25, 2021 -
LIFT America Act's infrastructure proposals list landfill gas among renewable energy sources
The wide-ranging bill, which calls for numerous energy grid improvements, names municipal solid waste as a renewable energy resource.
By Megan Quinn • March 24, 2021 -
DC first in Mid-Atlantic to require long-term renewable PPA for standard offer customers
The District of Columbia is requiring Pepco to serve 5% of the city's standard electrical service program from new long-term power purchase agreements.
By Robert Walton • March 24, 2021 -
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FERC open to revisiting MOPR, as grid operators, utilities mull future of wholesale markets
"Although I voted for our MOPR orders, and believe those determinations were supported by the record, I'm not wedded to the policy calls of the past," said Commissioner Neil Chatterjee during a FERC technical conference.
By Catherine Morehouse • March 24, 2021 -
As early renewables near end-of-life, attention turns to recycling and disposal
The coming need to address renewable energy assets that reach the end of their useful lives is spurring conversations about creating an economy that's circular as well as green.
By Emma Penrod • March 24, 2021 -
Biden to unveil multi-trillion dollar plan targeting power grids, other infrastructure next week
President Joe Biden will announce his multi-trillion dollar infrastructure package Wednesday in Pittsburgh, the White House announced yesterday.
By Joe Bousquin • Updated March 25, 2021 -
Opinion
Reforming capacity markets to meet clean energy goals and support the grid of the future
The goal of reform efforts should be to retool the regional markets so that they facilitate the achievement of state and consumer clean energy goals and meet regional reliability needs in tandem, the author writes.
By Jeff Dennis • March 22, 2021 -
FERC boosts small solar, reversing PURPA ruling that had upended 40 years of precedent
Regulators voted to allow qualifying facility status to a solar-plus-storage array that met the law's qualifying facility cap of 80 MW in net-capacity, but that has a gross capacity of 160 MW.
By Catherine Morehouse • March 19, 2021 -
Deep Dive
Amid rising rooftop solar battles, emerging net metering alternatives could shake up the sector
As distributed resource penetrations rise, a shift of costs to non-solar owners due to retail rate net energy metering is driving innovations in policy and rate design that can replace it.
By Herman K. Trabish • March 18, 2021 -
'We're going from cigarettes to crack': Hawaii regulators grill HECO on fossil fuel transition plan
Regulators worry delays to renewable projects, planned to help replace a coal plant on Oahu, could require the state to turn to oil-fired generation next year.
By Kavya Balaraman • March 17, 2021 -
Solar makes up majority of new resource additions for 2nd year in a row, reaching record 19.2 GW
With residential installations booming and expected to triple by 2030, Wood Mackenzie reported the largest year on record for utility-scale solar installations in the U.S.
By Iulia Gheorghiu • March 17, 2021 -
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Q&ATaking Charge: Commissioner Clements on FERC's 'make or break' role amid the energy transition
In a comprehensive interview with Utility Dive, Allison Clements laid out her thoughts on FERC's role following the mass outages in Texas, the need for transmission reform and more.
By Catherine Morehouse • March 16, 2021 -
APS comes out against legislation barring Arizona regulators from mandating decarbonization
The utility says ambiguities about the Arizona Corporation Commission's authority to regulate carbon emissions should be argued in the courts, not decided through legislation.
By Emma Penrod • March 15, 2021 -
Dominion, Berkshire Hathaway push better transmission siting as Biden turns focus to infrastructure
Infrastructure is next on the president's agenda, and there's ample political will to increase spending on it, according to Christina Hayes, vice president of federal regulatory affairs at Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
By Emma Penrod • March 12, 2021
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