New Orleans Built a Power Plant to Prepare for Storms. It Sat Dark for 2 Days.
Linda Williams is used to power outages in her neighborhood, where strong winds often damage the electrical lines that crisscross her street. But Hurricane Ida was different. Within...
Natural Gas Excluded in Democrats’ Budget Plan for Clean Energy
Natural gas won’t count as clean energy under a House Democratic plan that would eventually rid the electric grid of carbon and is part of...
What would it take to put all our electric lines underground to prevent outages?
Hurricane Ida plunged more than 1 million customers on the Gulf Coast into darkness, and then knocked out power to another 200,000 in the Northeast...
Vermont digs in on incentives to boost geothermal heat pumps
Vermont this summer launched an initiative to spur a challenging but potentially crucial market in the state’s decarbonization goals: ground-source heat pumps.
Tesla plan to sell electricity in Texas would cut out the ‘middleman’
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has until November 15 to decide on Tesla's application to sell electricity in the state's deregulated market.
Now Will Infrastructure Investors Finally View Microgrids As Resiliency?
As the damage from Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast is still being surveyed, it’s already clear that this is going to be a major...
California Looks to Bigger, More Complex Microgrids as It Faces Capacity Shortfalls
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made two big moves on microgrids this week, opening a proceeding to tackle the thorny issue of multiproperty microgrids,...
Clash of the Titans: Wind Power vs Coal Power
The headlines are clear: renewable energy is on the rise as a source of electricity for America and coal power is headed for the door....