Colorado’s Platte River utility to close Rawhide coal plant 16 years early,...
The Coloradoan: Platte River Power Authority is moving forward with a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% of 2005 levels by 2030, which will mean shuttering the Rawhide Unit 1...
View ArticleDominion Energy moving forward with 498MW of new solar projects in Virginia
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Dominion Energy Virginia announced Nov. 2 that it is planning to build nine solar farms in Virginia totaling 498 MW as a part of an effort to comply with the...
View ArticleWisconsin utility to close four unit, 1,135MW Oak Creek coal-fired station by...
Milwaukee Business Journal: We Energies will retire the oldest part of its coal-fired power plant complex in Oak Creek in 2023 and 2024 as its parent company shifts to more efficient power generation,...
View ArticleAmerican Electric Power to take 1,633MW of coal capacity in Texas offline by...
E&E News: Two major power plants in East Texas will stop using coal within the coming decade, American Electric Power Co. said yesterday. AEP’s Southwestern Electric Power Co. announced the Pirkey...
View ArticlePeabody warns of possible second bankruptcy in five years as coal industry...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The world’s largest private coal company Peabody Energy Corp. said it is in danger of its second bankruptcy filing in five years on the back of poor performance...
View ArticleArizona utility proposes $144 million transition fund for communities hit by...
Arizona Republic: Arizona Public Service is proposing to offer $144 million in help to three coal-country and tribal communities where the company eventually will close its remaining coal-burning power...
View ArticleAGL to build 250MW/1,000MWh battery in South Australia
Renew Economy: AGL, the country’s biggest coal generator and biggest polluter, on Saturday a announced that it is to build a massive 250MW big battery in South Australia, with four hours of storage,...
View ArticleLong-duration storage firm Form Energy gets $70 million investment infusion
Reuters: Form Energy, a startup planning to make battery systems that can efficiently store wind and solar energy for long periods of time, recently landed its biggest batch of funding, its chief...
View ArticleXcel to convert 1,018MW Harrington coal plant in Texas to gas by 2025
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Xcel Energy Inc. intends to convert its first coal-fired power plant in Texas — a 1,018-MW generating station — to run on natural gas, a plan in line with the...
View ArticleRenewable energy brightens outlook for RWE, EDF
Greentech Media: Two of Europe’s major utilities have demonstrated the signs of a post-coronavirus lockdown recovery, highlighted by growing renewables capacities. EDF and RWE both reported their Q3...
View ArticleOrigin Energy planning 300MW solar, 30MW storage project in South Australia
Renew Economy: Origin Energy has submitted plans to build a two-stage, 300MW solar and battery storage project near Morgan in the Riverland Region of South Australia. In an application to the State...
View ArticleIEEFA U.S.: Coal plants close as renewable energy construction rises
Joe Biden’s win in the U.S. presidential election has sparked thousands of words about coming changes to the electric utility sector; the reality is that the marketplace is already quickly pushing...
View ArticleNextEra eyes 30GW of new renewable energy development by 2024
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): NextEra Energy Inc. raised its projection for renewable energy development through next year and expects to have its largest construction program ever in 2023...
View ArticleTesla’s battery storage shipments topped 3,000MWh in 2020, up 83% from 2019
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Electric car maker Tesla Inc. finished an overall profitable 2020 with a bottom line that was significantly below expectations as the company absorbed the impact...
View ArticlePuerto Rico regulators back renewable energy transition, reject utility’s...
Greentech Media: The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority will be required to acquire thousands of megawatts of renewables and storage in the coming years, according to a Monday order from the island’s...
View ArticleIEEFA op-ed: Glenrock’s CO2 capture facility hopes are based on wishful thinking
Glenrock Energy wants to invest in a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture facility at PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston Unit 4 coal plant in Converse County. The facility would inject CO2 captured from the coal plant...
View ArticleIEEFA U.S.: Abrupt shift to renewables at Indiana utility underscores a...
The speed of the utility industry’s embrace of renewable energy and its unwillingness to build costly new fossil fuel generation—gas or coal-fired—is occurring much faster than would have been thought...
View ArticleNew York’s ConEd pulling back on gas investments, saying they’re not the...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Consolidated Edison Inc. will no longer invest in long-haul natural gas pipelines and may sell its existing portfolio, the company said just days after outlining...
View ArticleCalifornia regulators approve 1.2GW of new battery storage capacity
Bloomberg: California approved one of the biggest installations of battery-based energy-storage systems in the U.S. as the state moves to add power resources to its grid after suffering from rolling...
View ArticleRenewable energy tops coal, nuclear for second spot in U.S. electricity...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Renewable generation further increased in the second quarter compared to the prior year, surpassing coal and nuclear generation and becoming the second-largest...
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