The newly installed chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas last week pledged a “once-in-a-lifetime” overhaul of the state’s power market following February blackouts and repeated recent supply scares, saying the agency must reduce...
State environmental regulators have approved a plan by Alabama Power to cap a coal ash pond despite their acknowledgment that it is already leaking toxic metals into groundwater on the shores of the Mobile River, prompting protests from environmental...
In one of a number of major new obstacles for state approval of the $8.3 billion utility merger between Avangrid and PNM, a hearing examiner at the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission last week slammed Avangrid for failing to provide information...
Adding another corporate behemoth to its list of investors, NuScale Power on Thursday announced that it has closed on an undetermined equity investment from South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. to support deployment of NuScale’s 77-megawatt small modular...
In a move that could slow the state’s crash program to deploy renewables, a group of upstate New York towns and conservation groups have filed suit against regulations issued by the state’s new Office of Renewable Energy Siting, contending they...
Angering some green groups who say the Biden administration is wrongly prolonging use of fossil fuels, the White House recently released a white paper explicitly supporting scale-up of carbon capture, utilization and storage and making proposals to...