A group of utilities that once went big on building transmission is now going small to open bottlenecks and move more wind power from western Minnesota and the Dakotas. Grid North Partners, which includes […]
Daily Standup Top Stories Invenergy’s 5-GW Grain Belt transmission project faces continued opposition at FERC October 23, 2023 Mariel Alumit Dive Brief: The Missouri Landowners Alliance on Friday urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require Invenergy to […]
Distributed energy resource (DER) and microgrid developers are grappling with long utility interconnection queues and transformer shortages, which are slowing their projects and increasing costs. In addition, nonprofit organizations are waiting for clarification about provisions […]
As an Ohio uranium enrichment plant opened this month, yet another study questioned whether nuclear power from small modular reactors can compete with other types of electricity generation. Centrus Energy’s new plant in Piketon […]
Technologies for space are designed to be tough, safe, and long-lasting. So what happens when you bring the battery chemistry deployed on the International Space Station, nickel-hydrogen, down to Earth? “[It’s] the most durable battery ever […]
A St. Paul, Minnesota, college’s microgrid research center is preparing to expand after securing significant new state and federal funding. The University of St. Thomas’ Center for Microgrid Research plans to triple its three-person […]
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS—One morning earlier this year, all seemed calm in the dimly lit, bunkerlike control room of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) here, which manages an electricity grid that stretches across the high plains […]
Lawmakers in some states have been laying the groundwork to add geothermal power to the electrical grid and pump underground heat into buildings. Now a technological breakthrough could dramatically expand those ambitions—and perhaps unleash a […]
Alberta is pausing all approvals for new wind and solar power projects larger than one megawatt for the next six months, as it reviews where they can be built, how the surge in renewables affects […]
A failure to speed up transmission expansion in the United States “severely” limits potential wind, solar and energy storage projects, cutting possible greenhouse gas emissions reductions roughly in half, according to a Princeton University-led REPEAT Project report. […]
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