Elizabeth Yeampierre with the Climate Justice Alliance says environmental justice communities need to be allowed to speak for themselves on offshore wind.

FERC’s inquiry into transmission planning and cost allocation prompted a flood of comments, most of them agreeing on the need for some changes.

Panelists dissected FERC’s proposed rulemaking on transmission planning and cost allocation, noting what the commission left out and the challenges ahead.

Advocates of grid-enhancing technologies said “shared savings” is needed to persuade utilities to adopt low-cost investments to free up crucial transmission.

American Clean Power Association will absorb fellow trade group U.S. Energy Storage Association at the beginning of the new year, the groups announced.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management this month issued a draft environmental assessment that evaluates potential impacts of offshore wind leases and related work before construction within nearly 800,000-acres of the New York Bight.

Citing the coronavirus pandemic, the IRS extended the time that wind and solar developers have to complete their projects and qualify for tax credits.

Without any financial incentives from the federal level, utilities are unlikely to make the huge investments needed to deploy grid-enhancing technologies.

February’s winter storm, which threw Texas and much of the Midwest into a deep freeze, remains a hot topic as seen at recent industry conferences.

A spate of transmission projects is in the works to move renewables from remote regions of the West to urban load centers.