The Western Area Power Administration on July 19 announced a record of decision approving two interconnection requests related to ConnectGen’s proposed Rail Tie Wind Project, a 504 megawatt wind energy generation project located in Albany County, Wyoming. The agency is one of four power marketing administrations within the U.S. Energy Department, which transmits wholesale electricity…...
The Illinois Commerce Commission on July 18 approved $1.1 billion to authorize Illinois Power Agency (IPA) to procure new renewable generation in Illinois over a two-year period under the 2022 Long Term Renewable Resource Procurement Plan, or LTRRPP. The program will provide a minimum of 25 percent of total incentive to projects located in environmental…...
The Illinois Commerce Commission on July 13 published a first draft of its Renewable Energy Access Plan as required under the 2021 Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. The plan lays out a comprehensive direction toward a clean electricity system that is equitable, reliable, and reasonable. The 2021 law sets Illinois on the path to attaining…...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the commissioning of NextEra Energy Transmission LLC’s Empire State Transmission Line, a 20-mile transmission project that will upgrade the energy transmission system in the western part of the state. This initiative will enable the delivery of an additional 3,700 megawatts of renewable energy and is expected to avoid…
U.S. primary energy consumption, which includes energy from fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear, increased by 4 quadrillion British Thermal Unit (quads) in 2021 as compared to 2020, according to a July 1 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Fossil fuels namely, petroleum, natural gas, and coal, represent approximately 76.6 quads out of the total…...
Energy legislation enacted across U.S. states so far in 2022 spans a broad spectrum of topics portraying actions to facilitate the energy transition. These include measures to expand renewables and distributed resources, strengthen climate commitments, optimize grid performance, and sustain the nuclear power fleet. … Read the full report …...
The U.S. Energy Department on June 28 issued the 2022 U.S. Energy and Employment Report. A key finding of the report was in the face of economic uncertainty, the energy sector undertook optimistic job growth, increasing 4 percent from 2020 to 2021, outperforming general U.S. employment, which climbed 2.8 percent in the corresponding period. In…...
PJM Interconnection LLC’s capacity market auction for the 2023-2024 delivery year cleared at $34.13 per megawatt-day (MW-day), which is nearly 32 percent lower compared to the 2021 auction and the lowest in almost a decade. The auction results reflect a low-carbon resource mix, with a growth of more than 5,000 cleared megawatts of carbon-free resources, according to the grid operator, which operates across 13 states and the District of Columbia.