ENB Contributor Column Archives

Housing Initiative Partnership, Pepco and Emera Technologies Awarded $200,000 Grant by the Maryland Energy Administration for Innovative Microgrid Community in Fairmount Heights

May 6, 2021 Tracey Woods

Baltimore, MD The Housing Initiative Partnership (HIP), a green nonprofit affordable housing developer based in Prince George’s County, along with Pepco and Emera Technologies, have been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to construct […]

US investigating possible mysterious directed energy attack near White House

April 29, 2021 Tracey Woods

Energy News Beat Contributor Note: The security of our nation’s energy structure is critical requiring immediate policy and possible regulations. Washington (CNN)Federal agencies are investigating at least two possible incidents on US soil, including one […]

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $61 Million for Biofuels Research to Reduce Transportation Emissions

April 8, 2021 Tracey Woods

Tracy Woods, ENB Contributor – This is an excellent notice from the DOE showing leadership. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $61 million for technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. Biofuels […]

EPA power plant rule targets coal. Does that spell trouble for the grid?

May 3, 2024

Piles of coal parked at the entrance of Baltimore Harbor are the gateway to one of the biggest fossil fuel plants in the mid-Atlantic region. After years of public debate and litigation brought by the […]

TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables to Invest in 60 Farm-Based Organics-to-RNG Production Facilities Across the US

May 3, 2024

TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables, a US farm-based organics-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) producer, have signed an agreement to create an equally owned joint venture to develop, build, and operate Farm-Powered RNG projects in the US. TotalEnergies and Vanguard […]

Data Centers Now Need a Reactor’s Worth of Power, Dominion Says

May 3, 2024

(Bloomberg) — Data center developers in Northern Virginia are asking utility Dominion Energy Inc. for as much power as several nuclear reactors can generate, in the latest sign of how artificial intelligence is helping drive […]