Utilities

U.S. Cap-and-Trade Creates Winners and Losers among Largest Emitters

Under the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, ExxonMobil would face an annual charge of $5.9 billion to purchase carbon allowances, while electricity giants like Exelon and Pacific Gas ...

DOE Awards $155M to Make Industrial Sector More Energy Efficient

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $155 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for 41 industrial energy-efficiency ...

PG&E Expands Net Metering, California Solar Producers Jump For Joy

Solar advocates in California say that a recent move by Pacific Gas & Electric to expand net metering will encourage ...

GE, BP Partner on Carbon Capture Coal Plant in CA

GE and BP plan to jointly build a 250 megawatt coal power plant that is designed to capture and store 90 percent of emissions. ...

Solar Growth Causes Water Worries

California and other western states are pegging their energy future on renewables, including solar. But that growth comes at a cost to ...

Leading CEOs Advise Congress to Support All Energy Sources, Electric Grid

Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers at leading U.S. companies, is urging Congress and the Obama Administration to support renewable and traditional sources of ...

Dairy Farm Ties Into Grid With Methane Plant

Westminster Farms, a Vermont dairy company, partnered with Green Mountain Power to build an on-site plant to convert methane into electricity. The project, which ...

GE, Whirlpool, Others Launch Smart Green Grid Initiative

GE, Whirlpool Corp. and other technology and utility businesses have established a new collaborative effort aimed at demonstrating the ...

Food Lion, National Gypsum Adding Rooftop Solar

Among several solar installations coming in North Carolina, Food Lion and National Gypsum are adding rooftop solar. The installations come as part of a ...

U.S. Adds Nearly 1,700 MW of Wind Capacity in Q3

The U.S. wind energy industry has installed 1,649 megawatts (MW) of new power generating capacity in the third quarter, which is higher than either the second ...

California Passes Improved Feed-in Tariffs, while Germany and Spain Debate Changes

California's Governor Schwarzenegger has signed into law SB 32, one of several feed-in tariff (FIT) bills, which amends the existing FIT introduced by the California Public ...

Toyota USA’s Data Center Efficiencies Reduce Energy Use 10%

Improvements at the data center for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. should help decrease emissions and energy use, according to a press release. Toyota ...

PacifiCorp Tries to Reduce Incentive for Small Wind Developers

Companies that produce less than 10 megawatts of wind power may be denied the full rate that PacifiCorp pays other ...

Smart Grid Projects Get Ready to Roll in the U.S., UAE

Cisco, together with utility, technology and local government partners, are developing some of the nation's first projects to create a smarter electric grid. General Electric is ...

Texas Electricity Users May Pay for Utilities’ Bypassing Stimulus Funds

Purchasers of renewable energy in Texas may pay a higher rate after the companies building a $5 billion renewable energy transmission network in the ...

Arizona Solar Deal Falls Apart While Feds Give a Boost to Other Projects

As federal agencies get set to approve several renewable-energy projects, primarily in the western part of the country, a solar deal between Starwood Energy Group Global ...

Hawaii, Ontario Enact Feed-in Tariffs for Renewables

Businesses in Hawaii and Ontario can adopt renewable energy technologies with greater assurance that the investments will pay off now that the state and ...

Utilities Bumping Rates to Cover Rising Costs, Smart Meters

While the cities of Fort Collins, Colo., and Milwaukee, Wis., are still debating proposed price hikes by local utilities, in some cases to pay for the ...

Whirlpool to Produce 1M Smart Energy Dryers by 2011

Whirlpool Corp. will produce one million smart-energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Smart ...

California Initiates Carbon Fee on Polluting Industries – Nation’s First

California has approved the nation's first carbon fee on polluting industries, as well as the country's most aggressive energy plan. In a whirlwind of new environmental ...