How utilities can mitigate grid impacts of high solar penetrations

New strategies for utilities and installers to put solar in better places to protect the grid.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 16, 2014

How utilities can streamline rooftop solar interconnection and cut costs

A new online tool from Clean Power Research can help utilities get solar arrays online more efficiently. 

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 16, 2014

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AI in the Power Sector

Artificial intelligence is uniquely positioned to impact the electricity industry from both ends: as the technology driving large load demand growth and as a tool with the potential to make the power system more efficient. 

By Utility Dive staff

Energy trade groups weigh in on DOE infrastructure review

The Quadrennial Energy Review could shape the nation’s energy future.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 15, 2014

How SDG&E's rate reform will impact solar, low-income consumers

The utility says the new rates correspond better with individuals' energy usage.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 15, 2014

Grid of the future: How transmission and new technologies can work together

The grid of the future needs new wires and new technologies.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 15, 2014

Grid operators wary of coming winter

Despite predictions of a warmer winter, the specter of last year's Polar Vortex has officials worried.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 15, 2014

PG&E, FPL ink mutual-aid pact for natural disaster assistance

The two utilities have each committed more than 100 employees to help restore power in the event of a natural disaster.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 15, 2014

PJM, Sierra Club tussle over gas conversion at NJ power plant

Sierra Club says the gas retrofit threatens reliability, PJM says the Club doesn’t understand.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 14, 2014

Idaho Power's vital Boardman-to-Hemingway transmission line wrestles with permitting

Boardman-to-Hemingway will tie High Plains renewables to Pacific Coast markets.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 14, 2014

Unplanned outages lead to transmission emergencies in Texas

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued two transmission emergencies in the Rio Grande Valley last week.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 14, 2014

SPP: EPA timeline for emissions cuts too short

Moving too fast to cut GHGs could cause overloads and outages, the RTO says.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 10, 2014

Is SunZia ready to deliver New Mexico wind to Phoenix and Los Angeles?

After years of fighting for permits, SunZia is about to get a green light—or a lawsuit.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 9, 2014

How to build high voltage transmission in America

It just takes biblical patience and the power to fly.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 6, 2014

NextEra floats $1 billion proposal to bury transmission lines in seabed

The company is seeking approval for a 68-mile undersea transmission line.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 6, 2014

Maine welcomes larger customers into efficiency programs

The state anticipates saving 44,400 MWh annually.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 3, 2014

New York's energy future: What do utilities want?

First responses to the Reforming the Energy Vision straw proposal are a mixed bag, with many trying to secure their place in a changing energy landscape.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 2, 2014

DOE issues final approval on Quebec-to-Queens transmission line

Canadian authorities must still decide if they want to develop hydro for U.S. consumption.

By Herman K. Trabish • Oct. 1, 2014

California real-time market opens to outside systems

The new market will help cut costs and integrate renewable resources

By Robert Walton • Oct. 1, 2014

NERC finds grid performed reasonably well during polar vortex

Communication and demand response helped the grid through record cold last winter, but improvements are needed, the report said.

By Robert Walton • Oct. 1, 2014

Duke Florida under increasing pressure from lawmakers in crucial week

Florida legislators want to make Duke refund $54 million to consumers, investigate its ties with PSC

By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 30, 2014

Texas PUC says CenterPoint must share Houston Import Project

The decision effectively calls the transmission initiative six different “projects.”

By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 29, 2014

NiSource splits utility, gas businesses

The spinoff will result in two companies, NiSource and Columbia Pipeline Partners LP.

By Robert Walton • Sept. 29, 2014

How this New York utility plans to own and operate microgrids

Central Hudson Gas & Electric has broadly outlined a proposal to build, own and operate microgrids for customers.

By Robert Walton • Sept. 29, 2014

EnerNOC: FERC Order 745 ruling won't kill demand response

It is too late for a court decision to stem the value of distributed resources, according to the president of EnerNOC.

By Robert Walton • Sept. 29, 2014

Buffett's Berkshire, CenterPoint and NextEra weigh bids for Oncor

A bidding war may soon erupt over Energy Future Holdings' prized asset.

By Gavin Bade • Sept. 25, 2014