Avista boosts planned capital expenditure to replace old infrastructure

Avista is increasing its planned capital expenditures to about $1 billion during the next three years, mainly to deal with aging infrastructure, company officials said.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 27, 2014

N.D. regulators approve 4-year rate hike pact for Xcel Energy

North Dakota regulators approved a first-of-its-kind four-year rate hike agreement for Xcel Energy.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 27, 2014

Explore the Trendline➔

Sustainability

Companies are pursuing increasingly ambitous sustainability goals around clean energy, but integrating rising amounts of renewables, minimizing environmental impacts, and achieving carbon reduction targets can be challenging.

By Utility Dive staff

NextEra plans undersea power line from N.H. to Massachusetts

NextEra Energy Resources plans to build an $800 million undersea transmission line from Seabrook, New Hampshire, to near Boston.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 27, 2014

Tesla plans to have $5B battery factory running in three years

Tesla Motors and partners plan to spend about $5 billion building a factory in the Southwest that will start making low-cost batteries in three years.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 27, 2014

FirstEnergy to invest $4.2B in transmission

FirstEnergy plans to spend $4.2 billion on transmission in the next four years as part of the company's shift to focus on its regulated operations.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 26, 2014

North Carolina may require Duke Energy to remove coal ash

North Carolina regulators may require Duke Energy to remove the coal ash from a basin that recently leaked into the Dan River.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 26, 2014

Report: Customers to leave utilities as grid parity nears for solar-storage

As solar and energy storage prices fall, utilities in some markets will likely see increasing customer defections as grid parity gets closer in the next decade, according to a report from the Rocky Mountain Institute.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 26, 2014

Alliant Energy's residential sales grow for first time in 3 years

Alliant Energy's two utilities saw an increase in residential sales in 2013, company officials said.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 26, 2014

Edison International plans to seize distributed generation opportunities

Edison International, parent to Southern California Edison, plans to be active in emerging utility markets like distributed generation, company officials said.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 26, 2014

SDG&E's approach to rooftop solar, electric vehicles and the smart home

SDG&E's director of customer programs and projects spoke to Utility Dive about its business models.

By Davide Savenije • Feb. 25, 2014

Report: Concentrating solar can beat PV on electricity price

The concentrating solar market will shrink, but the technology will produce less expensive electricity than multicrystalline silicon, according to Lux Research.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 25, 2014

Minneapolis urged to stay with Xcel under new deal

Instead of forming a municipal utility, Minneapolis should seek ways to work with the utility to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a city-hired consultant.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 25, 2014

6 energy leaders to watch in 2014

We're taking at look at six key utility players – five are new to their jobs – who will have key roles in the sector's evolution.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 24, 2014

Tesla plans largest battery factory in the world

Tesla Motors is expected to announce this week plans for the largest battery plant in the world with an eye towards meeting the energy storage needs of the solar industry.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 24, 2014

PSE&G in talks on $2.9B infrastructure plan

PSE&G is in active talks on a $2.6 billion infrastructure proposal aimed at making the New Jersey utility's grid system stronger in the wake of Super Storm Sandy.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 24, 2014

Pinnacle West CEO: Net metering battle likely hurt stock

"Ugly media coverage" of the solar fight last fall may be hurting the stock of Pinnacle West Capital Corp., parent to Arizona Public Service, company officials said during a conference call.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 24, 2014

Austin Energy signs 300 MW wind deal

Austin Energy will buy the output from a 300-MW wind farm for roughly $30/MWh.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 24, 2014

Ameren to focus on regional transmission investments

Ameren expects to grow its federally approved transmission ratebase from $750 million to $2.6 billion in 2018.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 24, 2014

Massachusetts regulators OK gas-fired plant with carbon limits

Massachusetts regulators approved a 630-MW natural gas-fired power plant to be built near Boston, but the owners must ratchet down the plant's carbon emissions.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 21, 2014

How Duke Energy is becoming your trusted energy advisor

Customer data is "the centerpiece of our value proposition," Duke Energy's Denis Garman told Utility Dive.

By Davide Savenije • Feb. 21, 2014

Idaho Power looks at power supply options

Idaho Power wants to build the 500-kV Boardman-to-Hemingway interstate power line, but because of project delays, the utility is looking at other power supply alternatives.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 21, 2014

TransAlta sells renewables, natural gas stakes to MidAmerican

TransAlta is selling about 420 MW of geothermal, hydroelectric and natural-gas fired capacity to MidAmerican Energy Holdings for $193.5 million.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 21, 2014

Regulators approve Ameren Illinois power line project

Illinois regulators approved a $1.1 billion, 345-kV power line to be built by an Ameren transmission subsidiary.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 21, 2014

New York PSC approves ConEd climate change plan

New York regulators approved a rate freeze for ConEd that allows the utility to spend $1 billion hardening its system to adapt to climate change.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 21, 2014

Sumitomo develops storage system from used EV batteries

Japan's Sumitomo Corp. has developed an energy storage system that uses old batteries from electric vehicles.

By Ethan Howland • Feb. 20, 2014