State mandates to drive 12.5GW of new wind, solar capacity in New England...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Despite being the smallest independent system operator, or ISO, in terms of electricity demand in the U.S., ISO New England is expected to be a very active...
View ArticlePlatte River utility to close Rawhide coal plant in Colorado 16 years early...
The Denver Post: The Platte River Power Authority said Tuesday that it will retire a coal-fired power plant by 2030, 16 years earlier than planned. The closure of the Rawhide Unit 1 northwest of...
View ArticleU.S. installs 2,617MW of wind power in first quarter, additional 13,383MW...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The U.S. in the first three months of 2020 added 2,617 MW of wind power capacity, a record amount for a first quarter of any year. According to an analysis from...
View ArticleMoody’s: U.S. coal consumption to drop below 500 million tons in 2020,...
Platts: Renewable facilities are expected to generate more power in the U.S. than coal-fired stations in 2020, a first for the course of a full year, driven by a decline in demand for coal units’...
View ArticleU.S.’ largest battery storage system begins operation in California, much...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Power plant developers LS Power Group and Terra-Gen LLC added two big new lithium-ion battery stations to the California ISO’s expanding portfolio of...
View ArticleWood Mackenzie: Current economic downturn will speed decline in solar power...
Bloomberg: The cost of U.S. solar power is dropping faster than expected as the coronavirus stifles demand, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie. Residential-system prices will fall 17% over the...
View ArticleEIA: U.S. renewable generation topped coal, nuclear for second straight month...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Although U.S. net generation in April fell 6.6% below the same month in 2019, renewable generation has continued to grow as a source of the nation’s supply and...
View ArticleTransition away from coal speeding up in Spain
El País: Spain is on track to become a coal-free country in record time. All of its remaining coal-fired thermal power plants will start shutting down on Tuesday, a year-and-a-half after the closure of...
View ArticleUtilities in western U.S. announce coal plant closures, new renewable energy...
E&E News ($): Coal continues to disappear from the western United States. Two utilities in the region announced plans Friday to close their coal stations — the latest in a series of moves by...
View ArticleU.S. groups push economic transition plan for coal miners, coalfield communities
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): A group of local, tribal and labor leaders in U.S. communities where coal has traditionally been mined unveiled a “National Economic Transition,” or NET,...
View ArticleFlorida utilities agree to close 848MW unit at Plant Scherer, U.S.’ largest...
Utility Dive: Plant Scherer in Georgia — for years, the highest capacity coal-fired plant in the U.S. — will lose one of its four units to retirement, a sign that even the largest coal power plants are...
View ArticleIEEFA U.S.: Utilities are now skipping the gas ‘bridge’ in transition from...
Last week was a momentous one in the U.S. utility sector’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable power generation. Utilities in three states announced plans to close one or more of their coal...
View ArticleMoody’s: Decline of coal in U.S. electric generating sector ‘seems to be...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Reduced U.S. power demand amid the global coronavirus crisis will slash the country’s electric sector emissions by 175 million to 320 million metric tons in...
View ArticleArizona utility APS to rely on battery storage, solar to enable 2031 exit...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): After a temporary pause in its purchase of battery storage systems following an April 2019 explosion at one of its early projects, Arizona Public Service Co....
View ArticleSoutheast utilities cancel Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion also selling gas...
Bloomberg: One of the largest utilities in America is starting to turn its back on natural gas. Dominion Energy said Sunday that it’s selling substantially all of its natural gas pipeline and storage...
View ArticleS&P: U.S. utility-scale solar installations surged in first quarter to almost...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Utility-scale solar installations in the U.S. totaled 1,962 MW of new capacity in the first quarter of 2020, which was 65.5% higher than the total installed in...
View ArticleGas pipeline setbacks pushing U.S. utilities to embrace renewables, analysts say
Greentech Media: Legal challenges halted several major pipeline projects across the U.S. in recent days, underscoring a seismic shift facing the U.S. utility industry: the rise of renewables as a...
View ArticleEIA: 2020 U.S. coal production will fall to 501 million tons, 29% drop from 2019
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The U.S. Energy Information Administration once again lowered its projections for 2020 coal production, foreseeing a 29% drop in output compared to the prior...
View ArticlePacifiCorp issues RFP for 4,338MW of new renewable energy, battery storage...
KIFI/KIDK: PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power, has issued what it calls the largest request for proposals for renewable energy projects in company history. The company is looking...
View ArticleDuke’s Florida utility looks to add 750MW of new solar in the state by 2024
WLRN: Four months after Florida Power & Light received approval for a similar program, Duke Energy Florida is asking regulators to sign off on a $1 billion plan that would add 10 solar-power plants...
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