The U.S. Energy Department on Sep. 19 announced a $156 million grant to establish a unique refinery facility for separating rare earth elements and critical minerals from mining wastes and other unconventional sources. Rare earth elements and critical minerals are considered important for clean energy technologies’ manufacturing. The funding, provided by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment…
Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico on Sept. 18 as a category 1 hurricane with torrential rain and damaging winds – at 80 miles an hour – leading to an island-wide power outage, as the electric system experienced several transmission line disruptions. The storm hit nearly five years after Hurricane Maria destroyed 80 percent…...
The Virginia State Corporation Commission on Sept. 16 authorized a rise to the fuel rate for customers of Dominion Energy Inc. that involves a mitigation plan, which would lay out the recovery of the $1.02 billion projected fuel deferral over three years. Moreover, the commission approved a provision under which Dominion agreed to renounce recovery…...
The New York Public Service Commission on Sept. 15 commenced its review of a number of its innovative clean energy programs, incorporating utilities’ endeavour’s under New Efficiency: New York, or NENY and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Clean Energy Fund, or CEF. Collectively, these initiatives represent approximately $10 billion in customer…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Sep. 7 released a comprehensive roadmap identifying four key pathways – energy efficiency, electrification, use of low-carbon energy resources, and carbon capture – to decarbonize the industrial sector. The roadmap encourages the use of nuclear energy for heat and electricity, renewables, clean hydrogen, and biofuels. The report underscores the importance…...
The Southwest Power Pool announced on Sep. 6, 2022 that several entities in Arizona have pledged to support the next stage of the Markets + development. Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Arizona Public Service Company, Salt River Project and Tucson Electric Power join seven other organizations that earlier pledged to support market development. Markets+ is a…...
U.S. consumers spent $1 trillion on energy expenditures in 2020, the lowest amount since 2002, according to an Aug. 29 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Total energy expenditure is the sum of the entire amount consumed across all sectors, such as residential, industrial, commercial, and transportation. Energy consumption decreased by 7 percent from…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Aug. 26 announced $425 million in formula funding through the State Energy Program, SEP, to help states expand their clean energy programs and ramp up deployment under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The funding is expected to create jobs, boost financial growth, lower individuals’ energy prices, and reduce…...
The U.S. Energy Department awarded more than $540 million for research in clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing to 54 state universities and 11 national labs across 34 states and the District of Columbia, according to an Aug. 25 news release. The investment will facilitate research activities that are crucial to advance solar and nuclear…...