North Carolina’s electric cooperatives are outdistancing the state’s investor-owned utilities in microgrid deployment.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission examined how generation and distribution planning in the state are going to become more holistic and integrated.

New legislation offers Virginia schools a chance to replace polluting diesel buses with electric ones, but battery issues are a roadblock.

Six utilities in the Southeast, including AEP, Duke and TVA, have banded together with a plan to create “a seamless network” of fast-charging EV stations.

Utilities and co-ops in 11 Southeastern states asked FERC for permission to expand bilateral trading in the region and allow 15-minute energy transactions.

Virginia regulators have graded Dominion Energy’s proposed integrated resource plan as incomplete, saying the company must provide more information.

Utility disregard and an absence of state policy is holding back energy efficiency in the Southeast, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy said.

Dominion Energy has acquired a 150-MW solar facility in Ohio from Invenergy that will provide energy to a nearby Facebook data center.

Many of the nation’s largest utilities plan on using fossil fuels through 2030, threatening efforts to mitigate climate change, the Sierra Club reported.

NEPOOL and NESCOE are hiring Peter Flynn, a former National Grid executive, to serve as administrator of the Transition to the Future Grid project.