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EarthBridge Energy has acquired acreage in West Texas for an energy storage project the Houston based company plans to develop.
Enchanted Rock LLC recently began construction of a 48-megawatt power generating unit adjacent to the City of Lodi Water Treatment Plant in Lodi, Calif. The power plant is scheduled to be operational by the end of summer 2023.
The Environmental Protection Agency on May 11 issued its long-awaited proposed rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the new, existing, modified, and reconstructed power plants. The rules would regulate new gas-fired combustion turbines, existing coal plants and certain large and base-loaded existing gas plants.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore on May 8 signed into law a bill that establishes a 3,000-megawatt target for energy storage and requires the Maryland Public Service Commission to develop a cost-effective procurement program. The measure, H.B. 910, calls for the PSC to establish targets for the cost
Researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia have developed a way to use machine learning to aid energy reduction strategies in an urban setting. In a study, Performance evaluation of deep learning architectures for load and temperature forecasting under dataset size constraints and seasonality
In its first round of funding for the year, the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy Efficiency and Development program awarded $457,425 to support five projects, in addition to $42,000 for scholarships and internships. The awards span 16 public power utilities across 13
In a May 3 letter to Patricia Poppe, CEO of California investor-owned utility Pacific Gas & Electric, San Francisco officials including Dennis Herrera, General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, urged the utility to reconsider its position related to the city’s plan to buy PG&E’s grid assets, which would allow the city to become responsible for all electric distribution service within San Francisco’s boundaries.
A new report from the Brattle Group finds that 60 gigawatts of virtual power plant deployment could meet future U.S. resource adequacy needs at $15–$35 billion less than the cost of the alternative options over the ensuing decade.