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Weather-normalized electricity demand has increased by about 2% in Eversource Energy’s service territories in New England, in part due to heating and transportation electrification, CEO Joe Nolan said.
WECC expects two regions to be under elevated risk as the West heads into the winter, with staff saying a prolonged weather event could impact operating reserves.
If just 10% of the land-based renewables in PJM’s generator interconnection queue had been developed, the total cost of the RTO’s 2026/27 capacity auction would have been reduced by $3.5 billion, according to an analysis GridLab commissioned by Aurora Energy Research.
In a rare split decision, the California Public Utilities Commission approved $51.2 million in additional funds for electrification projects for San Diego Gas & Electric customers.
New Jersey voters resoundingly backed Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the state’s gubernatorial race, sweeping into power a clean energy advocate who says she will immediately freeze utility rates.
Democrats won elections in Virginia and Georgia that have implications for energy policy: offshore wind and data centers in Virginia and affordability in both.
Constellation Energy is proposing 714 MW of new gas-fired peaker capacity and up to 800 MW of storage in response to a Maryland solicitation.
Industrial electrification can help ease grid pressures when it is designed and meaningfully incentivized for flexibility, says Cihang Yuan, an energy officer for the World Wildlife Fund.
Speakers at a New Jersey energy conference discussed how to confront the energy shortfall and get more power online.
Reports of the energy storage industry’s demise are greatly exaggerated, experts said during the American Clean Power Association’s annual Energy Storage Summit.
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