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Deep Dive // Vineyard Wind Project PermittingAs Biden targets 100% clean electricity, strategies emerge to reliably integrate rising renewables
A power system based on portfolios of increasingly cost-effective utility-scale and distributed renewables is emerging and driving new operational and market solutions to make it work reliably.
By Herman K. Trabish • April 19, 2021 -
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ConEd, other utilities with biggest decarbonization targets have seen the most progress: SEPA
A Smart Electric Power Alliance survey of 135 utilities found that those with the most ambitious, detailed decarbonization commitments have made the most progress toward their goals.
By Emma Penrod • April 16, 2021 -
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TrendlineThe Energy Transition to Renewables
New policy and business actions are giving a significant boost to renewable energy in the U.S., but opposition is growing and grid interconnection, permitting, labor and other challenges remain.
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OpinionGas is failing California. It's time to move on.
Even a state like California can waver in its progress towards clean energy if we let fear take over, the authors write.
By Nina Robertson, Katherine Ramsey and Shana Lazerow • April 16, 2021 -
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Duke, Dominion, other utility executives lay out critical steps to achieve decarbonization targets
To continue increasing renewable investments, utilities need to communicate details about what the money is funding and have access to streamlined permitting applications for transmission infrastructure, executives said.
By Jason Plautz • April 15, 2021 -
Facebook meets 100% renewable energy goal with over 6 GW of wind, solar, 720 MW of storage
The tech giant lowered its greenhouse gas emissions 94% from 2017 levels, and it aims to achieve net zero emissions across its entire value chain by 2030.
By Iulia Gheorghiu • April 15, 2021 -
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Hawaii top regulator fears potential clean energy project delays could slow closure of HECO oil-fired plant
Hawaiian Electric representatives, however, say the utility is trying to balance a variety of concerns, including from local communities.
By Kavya Balaraman • April 15, 2021 -
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Q&ATaking Charge: FERC Commissioner Christie on his 'across the board' respect for state authority
"The state regulators know much more about their own states than I did as a Virginia regulator and that I will as a FERC commissioner," said Commissioner Mark Christie in a wide-ranging interview with Utility Dive.
By Catherine Morehouse • April 13, 2021 -
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Biden $1.5 trillion budget proposal includes 27% increase in overall clean energy spending
The proposed budget would ramp up spending on new technologies, including advanced nuclear and hydrogen.
By Catherine Morehouse • April 12, 2021 -
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OpinionPutting the 'E' back in ESG: Lessons from the field
To make environmental, social and governance investments more of a mandate than a moment, there needs to be a way to track and verify their impact, particularly for climate-related investments, the author writes.
By Bob Hinkle • April 12, 2021 -
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How Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan could boost California's energy transition
Transmission investments could help California address reliability challenges and utility wildfire risk, experts say.
By Kavya Balaraman • April 6, 2021 -
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Local governments set record for new renewable energy procurement in 2020, groups report
Transactions last year grew renewable capacity 23% from 2019's totals, according to World Resources Institute and Rocky Mountain Institute data.
By Chris Teale • April 6, 2021 -
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OpinionWhat a federal just transition strategy should look like
The transition to a low-carbon economy is a national — even global — phenomena and the response should be too, contributors from the World Resources Institute wrote.
By Jillian Neuberger and Devashree Saha • April 5, 2021 -
Biden $2 trillion infrastructure proposal includes billions in spending on transmission, clean energy
The plan received wide-ranging support from climate and clean energy groups, but Republican leadership opposes its high price tag.
By Catherine Morehouse • April 1, 2021 -
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State of the Electric Utility 2021
The 8th annual State of the Electric Utility Survey Report provides a pulse on industry trends from nearly 500 utility professionals, many at the VP level and above, along with insight from a broad range of industry experts.
By Nami Sumida • April 1, 2021 -
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State of the Electric Utility 2021: Gas doubts rise, DER focus wanes, and 5 other key takeaways
Despite the impacts of COVID-19, the energy transition is stronger than ever, the results of Utility Dive's 8th annual industry survey show.
By Larry Pearl • April 1, 2021 -
Large consumers blame renewables for 2020 declines in C&I power reliability
A new survey finds 44% of companies lose power monthly or more frequently, and the problem is getting worse.
By Robert Walton • March 31, 2021 -
RMI sees potential to de-risk municipal power acquisition in PPAs
Municipalities have only recently entered the PPA market in force, according to RMI, but PPAs could offer some unique benefits to cities and towns.
By Emma Penrod • March 30, 2021 -
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Decarbonization requires more access to and consensus around energy data
There is a need for more data to better track and quantify progress toward decarbonization, the author writes.
By Ben Gerber • March 30, 2021 -
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What's the biggest role for hydrogen in a clean energy economy? It depends who you ask
Hydrogen could play multiple roles in the clean energy transition, from decarbonizing heavy industry to expanding energy storage, industry experts agree. But visions diverge around questions of use and distribution.
By Emma Penrod • March 25, 2021 -
LIFT America Act's infrastructure proposals list landfill gas among renewable energy sources
The wide-ranging bill, which calls for numerous energy grid improvements, names municipal solid waste as a renewable energy resource.
By Megan Quinn • March 24, 2021 -
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DC first in Mid-Atlantic to require long-term renewable PPA for standard offer customers
The District of Columbia is requiring Pepco to serve 5% of the city's standard electrical service program from new long-term power purchase agreements.
By Robert Walton • March 24, 2021 -
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FERC open to revisiting MOPR, as grid operators, utilities mull future of wholesale markets
"Although I voted for our MOPR orders, and believe those determinations were supported by the record, I'm not wedded to the policy calls of the past," said Commissioner Neil Chatterjee during a FERC technical conference.
By Catherine Morehouse • March 24, 2021 -
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As early renewables near end-of-life, attention turns to recycling and disposal
The coming need to address renewable energy assets that reach the end of their useful lives is spurring conversations about creating an economy that's circular as well as green.
By Emma Penrod • March 24, 2021 -
Biden to unveil multi-trillion dollar plan targeting power grids, other infrastructure next week
President Joe Biden will announce his multi-trillion dollar infrastructure package Wednesday in Pittsburgh, the White House announced yesterday.
By Joe Bousquin • Updated March 25, 2021 -
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OpinionReforming capacity markets to meet clean energy goals and support the grid of the future
The goal of reform efforts should be to retool the regional markets so that they facilitate the achievement of state and consumer clean energy goals and meet regional reliability needs in tandem, the author writes.
By Jeff Dennis • March 22, 2021
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