Utilities

GE, BP Partner on Carbon Capture Coal Plant in CA

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. ...

October 30, 2009

Solar Growth Causes Water Worries

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 ...

October 29, 2009

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

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 ...

October 22, 2009

Dairy Farm Ties Into Grid With Methane Plant

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 ...

October 21, 2009

GE, Whirlpool, Others Launch Smart Green Grid Initiative

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 ...

October 21, 2009

Food Lion, National Gypsum Adding Rooftop Solar

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 ...

October 21, 2009

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

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 ...

October 21, 2009

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

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 ...

October 13, 2009

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

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 ...

October 13, 2009

PacifiCorp Tries to Reduce Incentive for Small Wind Developers

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 ...

October 8, 2009

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

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 ...

October 5, 2009

Texas Electricity Users May Pay for Utilities’ Bypassing Stimulus Funds

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 ...

October 2, 2009

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

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 ...

October 1, 2009

Hawaii, Ontario Enact Feed-in Tariffs for Renewables

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 ...

September 30, 2009

Utilities Bumping Rates to Cover Rising Costs, Smart Meters

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 ...

September 30, 2009

Whirlpool to Produce 1M Smart Energy Dryers by 2011

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 ...

September 29, 2009

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

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 ...

September 28, 2009

Duke Energy, FPL Plan EV Conversion by 2020

Duke Energy, FPL Plan EV Conversion by 2020

Two major utilities plan to convert their fleets of trucks and cars entirely to plug-in hybrid or completely electric vehicles by 2020. The move by FPL ...

September 24, 2009

Businesses Find New Ways to Save Energy, Cost in Data Centers

Businesses Find New Ways to Save Energy, Cost in Data Centers

Whether it's a novel technique to cool data centers like the one tested by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, installation of new hardware chosen by Skyservice Airlines, ...

September 24, 2009

PG&E Quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change, Nike Applies Pressure

PG&E Quits U.S. Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change, Nike Applies Pressure

Citing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "extreme position on climate change," Pacific Gas & Electric has quit the chamber, reports the New York Times. Nike ...

September 24, 2009

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