When it comes to the levelized cost of energy (LCOE), “Unsubsidized renewable energy remains the most cost competitive form of new-build generation…. Wind, solar and storage are expected to continue ...

Reality check: It takes around five years, on average, for generation and transmission projects to move through review. “The current permitting system is broken,” Xan Fishman, vice president of energy ...

After months of White House pressure, FERC is kicking off large-load interconnection reforms. Yesterday, the agency ordered all six regional grid operators to “justify”—or accordingly tweak—the rules ...

That was quick: In May, PacifiCorp and CAISO launched EDAM (which builds off the real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market). Two months in, EDAM is helping PacifiCorp improve resource planning. The ...

A group of nine Midwestern and Southern electric utilities, facing the prospect of demand for increased high-voltage transmission, are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (EL-26-58-000) to ...

The federal government’s assault on the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act — pronounced in the Trump administration and abetted by the U.S. Supreme Court — continued yesterday (July 16) at the ...

EIA: "The 250-year history of U.S. energy consumption." Only appropriate after the recent celebration of the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence is a review of the evolution of ...

U.S. Department of Energy If you are designing a car from scratch, there are certain essentials to begin with. You need to start with the wheels on the corners, ...

Sunrun wants to tap its 1.1M customers to offer extra compute power to AI developers. How? The company is testing compute nodes in homes with its solar and battery systems and selling that ...

The mine could yield valuable supplies of zinc, silver, and manganese, strengthening the domestic critical mineral supply chain (a major White House goal). These materials are used to produce energy ...

Last week’s heat dome had the power system working overtime: Electrical output surpassed 100K GWh…for the first time in history, EEI reported. (The previous record: >99K GWh in July ...

The vast majority of companies and institutions have become "free-market" energy consumers in Brazil. As such, they receive two bills: one for the energy itself and one for grid usage (transmission ...