Author: Gavin Bade@GavinBade Published: Feb. 26, 201 Utility Dive Utilities are still moving to a cleaner, more distributed power system, but are increasingly unsure about regulation and market structures Utilities in the U.S. are moving to a cleaner, more distributed power

Author: EMMA FOEHRINGER MERCHANT       Published: FEBRUARY 25, 2019 Green Tech Media Greentech Media checks in on the solar companies that, under threat from tariffs, announced plans for U.S. solar module manufacturing. A year after the administration announced solar tariffs, some

Author: Direct Energy Business  Published: Feb. 26, 2019   It’s been 20 years since the first retail power markets opened under deregulation, allowing consumers in those markets to choose their energy supplier. What effect has that had on U.S. retail

Author: Gavin Bade@GavinBade Published: Feb. 26, 2019 Utility BRIEF Virginia regulators on Thursday refused to let Walmart leave its incumbent utility service in the state to shop for electricity on the open market, writing it would raise costs too much for residential

Author: Ronald Bethea Published: 2/25/2019 Topic of Discussion: !. If goal of the green bank is to accelerate energy efficiency improvements and the deployment of clean energy technology by leveraging private investment, removing upfront costs, and increasing the efficiency of public

Author: Gavin Bade@GavinBade  Publidhed:  2/19/2019 UtilityDive PODCAST At the start of 2019, the Green New Deal has captured the imaginations — and the anxieties — of the U.S. power sector. Pushed by progressive activists and policymakers, the GND is a

Author: Dave Anderson  •  Published: February 19, 2019  Energy And Policy Institute Wind and solar power projects are under attack by coal and gas companies that fear competition from the booming renewable energy industry. Below are examples from the past year of the

Author: Gavin Bade@GavinBade Published: Feb. 20, 2019 Utility Dive Dive Brief: The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it will hear a broad case on the Clean Water Act that could have major implications for utility infrastructure, particularly coal ash disposal facilities. The case, County of

Author: Tracey Woods     Published: 2/19/2019  American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) PRESS RELEASE On February 26th  27th and 28th, 2019 the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) will host its first Capitol Hill Day and Energy Policy

Author: JOEL LEVIN  (OPINION)  Published: 2/13/2019 Morning Consult The federal electric vehicle tax credit was established with one goal: Grow the nascent EV market. While we have seen considerable expansion, we are not close to a fully mature market and the

Author:  John U’Ren Published 2/14/2019 Plug In America The polar vortex is in full swing and drivers everywhere are finding out their cars don’t love the frigid temperatures. All cars, both gas and electric, use more energy in cold weather, which yields

Authored By: Hightower Pertroleum Company Publidhed : February 13, 2019 OUR HISTORY:  Over 58 Years of Business Excellence Stephen “Steve” Hightower founded Hightowers Petroleum Co. in 1984, continuing a family legacy of entrepreneurism that began in 1957 with the establishment

Author: Jacob Fenston  Published WAMU, FEB 7   Georgetown University is planning to built and buy energy from a solar farm in Charles County under an arrangement with Origis Energy. ehpien / Flickr Georgetown University has a bold plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions: by later this

A combination of factors usher in a new power landscape Everywhere you look, there are unique dynamics at work. Infrastructures, components and equipment are aging. Weather events and natural disasters cause billions of dollars of infrastructure damage. Cyber threats are

Author: Iulia Gheorghiu@IMGheorghiu   Published: Feb. 6, 2019 Utility Dive Dive Brief: The publicly-owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) released on Jan. 23 a draft of its 2019 integrated resource plan (IRP), adding cleaner energy resources to the island’s grid over the next

Author: Melissa Schille Publishd  December  20, 2018    President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill Thursday afternoon, signaling the official nationwide legalization of industrial hemp—a moment long-awaited by the cannabis industry. Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell inserted language from his Hemp Farming Act of 2018 into

Author: Eric Sandy and Melissa Schille Published: December 17, 2018 greenhousemag.com Industry stakeholders anticipate increased investment into the industry, as well as massive growth in hemp research, cultivation and sales. Business Congress federally legalized hemp with the Dec. 12 passage of the 2018 Farm

Published by  Skro35 at  February 11, 2017 Ralph talks to Dickson Despommier about “vertical farming,” how to raise farm crops in tall inner-city buildings.  And hemp lobbyist, Eric Steenstra, tells us about his ongoing efforts to convince Congress to make hemp farming legal.

Author:  Community Bulletint:  Published:  July 17, 2018  Press release from the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association: The Board of the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association (NCIHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Blake Butler as Executive Director. Butler, a partner in

Author: EMMA FOEHRINGER MERCHANT  JANUARY 23, 2019  Publisher: GTM “It can’t run red-hot forever.” Industry experts voice questions and concerns about dirt-cheap, shorter-term PPAs. Residual value used to be “the gravy” on top of existing PPA returns. It’s now being treated as