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Ta’Jahnae Buchanan recently became the first female and first African American female to complete all requirements of the Cleveland Public Power lineworker apprentice program.
Virtual power purchase agreements are drawing increased interest from U.S. corporations looking to grow their renewable energy portfolios.
The Environmental Protection Agency on April 5 proposed to strengthen and update the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants.
In 2026, half of the coal-fired generation capacity in the U.S. will have closed since it peaked in 2011, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
More than 60 House members on April 3 urged Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to withdraw the Department of Energy’s proposed rule to increase conservation standards for distribution transformers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on March 29 approved the first phase of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s project to design a new solar-powered microgrid system for the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, located east of the main island.
The growth in the development of technologies such as solar farms or battery storage will face some limitations due to supply chain constraints, Rudy Garza, President and CEO of San Antonio, Texas-based public power utility CPS Energy said on March 31.
Cleveland Public Power plans to collaborate with the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority on the port’s electrification and warehouse modernization project.