Alabama municipal utility moves forward with 100MW solar farm
Montgomery Advertiser: In Montgomery County, 800 rural acres will soon be home to a massive 350,000-panel solar array. The project, a partnership between local utility company Alabama Municipal...
View ArticleIEEFA Indonesia: PLN’s fractured finances require real leadership
(HONG KONG) – It’s time to pay the piper. That is the message delivered loud and clear by the 2018 accounts that Indonesia’s state-controlled power company finally released this week. Unfortunately for...
View ArticleColorado governor signs bills easing coal plant closures, mandating...
Westword: For more than thirty years, even as scientists issued increasingly dire warnings about the urgent need to tackle climate change, Colorado, like many states, has not only failed to reduce its...
View ArticlePolish utilities taking small steps in transition from coal to renewables
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Poland’s largest power generators are slowly waking up to what many of their European peers have long internalized as part of their strategies: that coal may not...
View ArticleAnother natural gas project cancelled in California
Greentech Media: Independent power producer Calpine has abandoned plans to build a new natural-gas plant in Southern California, swelling the ranks of recently canceled fossil fuel plants in the state....
View ArticleState judge backs coal-to-gas conversion at Florida’s Big Bend plant
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): A Florida administrative judge recommends that the state approve Tampa Electric Co.’s application to retire one of the Big Bend Generating Station’s units and...
View ArticleRocky Mountain Power moving forward with $3.1 billion wind project in Wyoming
Wyoming Public Media: Rocky Mountain Power plans to break ground on a $3.1 billion-dollar statewide wind energy project this week. The project includes building three new wind farms in Carbon and...
View ArticleWood Mackenzie: U.S. storage industry on track for record growth in 2019 and...
Greentech Media: The U.S. energy storage industry installed a record amount of power capacity in the first quarter of 2019. The 148.8 megawatts of new grid storage capacity represented a 232 percent...
View ArticleAEE intenta revertir en el tribunal acuerdo de entregar documentos públicos...
4 de junio de 2019 (Puerto Rico) – La Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) intentó dar marcha atrás al acuerdo al que llegó con la organización CAMBIO y el Instituto de Economía y Análisis Financiero...
View ArticlePuerto Rico update: PREPA tries to block delivery of public documents on...
(PUERTO RICO) – The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) tried to go back on the agreement it had reached with nonprofit organization CAMBIO and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial...
View ArticleNorth Carolina may take up securitization idea to speed coal plant closures
Energy News Network: A controversial ratemaking bill in North Carolina contains a little-discussed section that — if amended — could offer a financing model to help Duke Energy close its coal-fired...
View ArticleFitch: U.S. to add 17,000MW of renewable capacity annually through 2022
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Growth in the U.S. renewable energy market will average more than 6% annually over the next decade as falling technology costs and support from states and the...
View ArticleJudge orders June 7 hearing on IEEFA/CAMBIO demand for release of documents...
June 5, 2019 (PUERTO RICO) – An urgent hearing will take place Friday, June 7th, at the Court of First Instance in San Juan to determine the next steps on the motion filed by CAMBIO and the Institute...
View ArticleCAMBIO and IEEFA will begin receiving public documents from the Puerto Rico...
June 7, 2019 (Puerto Rico) – Starting today, CAMBIO and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) will be receiving public documents from the Puerto Rico Electric Power...
View ArticleIEEFA update: European utilities at risk from Credit Agricole’s new 2030 coal...
June 7, 2019 (LONDON) – Paris-based Credit Agricole has become one of the first banks to join a growing investor coalition demanding that electric utilities exit coal generation by 2030, underscoring...
View ArticleMichigan regulators approve Consumer Energy’s coal plant closure plan
Associated Press: Michigan regulators on Friday approved a major utility’s plan to phase out its coal-fired power plants and rely increasingly on renewable sources and energy efficiency to provide...
View ArticleIEEFA brief: Paradise 3 coal plant must go
June 11, 2019 (IEEFA U.S.) – The decision by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) board of directors to close the Paradise Unit 3 coal-burning power plant in 2020 “makes perfect sense,” according...
View ArticleTalen to close two units at Colstrip by end of 2019
Associated Press: The company that operates a coal-fired power plant in eastern Montana said Tuesday it will close two of the plant’s four units about 30 months ahead of schedule because of the high...
View ArticleIEEFA update: U.K. must align energy regulation with 2050 zero-carbon goal
June 12, 2019 (LONDON) – Britain this week will become the first major economy to commit to becoming net zero-carbon by the middle of the century, but will need to introduce clearer regulation to...
View ArticleAEE entrega escasos documentos públicos requeridos sobre privatización y el...
17 de junio de 2019 (Puerto Rico) – La Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) no respondió cabalmente a la solicitud de documentos públicos sobre la privatización y el sistema eléctrico que se había...
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