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National Grid Submits Final ‘Future Grid’ Plan To Massachusetts DPU

National Grid has submitted its Electric Sector Modernization, or Future Grid, Plan to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) outlining investments needed in...

Kit Carson Cooperative Completes PPA for New Mexico Amalia II Array

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) and Guzman Energy have executed a PPA for Amalia II, a 10.98 MW solar array with 8.75 MW of...

True North Solar Project Receives Delivery of Main Power Transformers

Avangrid has delivered and installed both main power transformers at its True North solar project, as module and racking system installation continues to progress...

Xcel Energy Releases New Upper Midwest Energy Plan

Xcel Energy has proposed a new energy plan for the Upper Midwest that incorporates the company’s carbon reduction goals by extending use of its...

Sunrun, PG&E Complete First Season of Residential Distributed Power Program

Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) says during last summer and fall, their California customers provided a peak 32 MW from 8,500...

El Paso Electric Expands its Texas Community Solar Program

El Paso Electric (EPE) has started construction on a 10 MW facility as part of the company’s second Texas Community Solar program expansion.  Along with...

Alliant Energy Completes Six Wisconsin Projects

Alliant Energy has completed six new solar projects in Wisconsin, adding 514 MW of energy to the company’s generation capacity.  "Completing these projects is a...

MPSC Approves Plan for Lake Trout Solar Plant

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has approved the plan by Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) to build its largest solar farm to date. I&M will...

Meta Mesa Data Center to be Powered by 300 MW Orsted Project

Meta says its Mesa, Ariz., data center will receive the majority portion of energy generated by Ørsted's Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300 MW...

Con Ed Report Reflects Increased Customer Renewables Adoption

Con Edison customers are on pace to break last year’s solar installations record as the company continues efforts towards battery storage and electric vehicle...

Prisma Photonics Opens First U.S. Office in Austin 

Prisma Photonics, an Israeli startup utilizing optical fiber technology to monitor large-scale power-utility infrastructure, has opened its first U.S. office in Austin, Texas.  Founded in...

Minnesota Power Issues RFP for 300 MW of Solar

Minnesota Power is advancing its EnergyForward vision for 100% carbon-free energy with the issuance of an RFP for up to 300 MW of regional...

AutoGrid, Puget Sound Energy Expand Virtual Power Plant Solution Partnership

AutoGrid has expanded its partnership with Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Washington state's largest utility, on a virtual power plant (VPP) solution built on the...

Major Utilities’ Plans Include Large Complement of New Solar

PPL Corp. subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) have received regulatory approval to retire 600 MW of coal...

DOE Funding Three Major Transmission Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) says it is committing up to $1.3 billion to transmission lines crossing six states, enabling 3.5 GW of additional capacity...

New Mexico Utility Kicks Off Construction on 200 MW Solar Project

D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), in partnership with Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) and SOLV Energy, has broken ground on the San...

FirstEnergy Needs RECs for Ohio Operating Utilities

FirstEnergy Corp. has issued an RFP to purchase Ohio-compliant renewable energy credits (RECs) for its Ohio subsidiaries - Ohio Edison, The Illuminating Company and...

Southern Power Buys 350 MW of Solar Under Construction in Texas, Wyoming

Southern Power, a wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Company, recently acquired two solar facilities: the 200 MW Millers Branch Solar Facility in...

ComEd: From 837 Solar Installations in 2016 to 49,000 Today

Illinois investor-owned utility ComEd says more than 51,000 distributed energy resources (DER) were connected to grid as of September, including more than 49,000 residential...

Virginia Utility Looking for Approval on 772 MW of Solar

In its fourth annual clean energy filing with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), Dominion Energy Virginia has proposed more than a dozen new...

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