Energy Central – Utilities
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CitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemographicsElectricity GridHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsUnited States
U.S. Cities at Risk for ‘Deadliest’ Heat Wave-Power Failure Combo
Millions of urban Americans will be put at serious risk of heat exhaustion this summer if any heat waves coincide with power failures—a deadly ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridJurisdictionsRenewable EnergyUnited States
New York School E-Bus Fleet Could Help Utility Cut Peak Power Demand
An energy management company in Baltimore and a fleet operations company from California are looking to electric vehicles as “mobile microgrids” to help utilities ... -
AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearOil & Gas
10 Years After Fukushima, Japan Finally Begins Push for Renewables
A decade after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, an entrenched reluctance to embrace renewable energy—fostered in part by utilities anxious to maintain their dominance—may ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Washington State ‘Cap-and-Invest’ Law Aims for Fast Carbon Cuts without Higher Energy Costs
Washington State is adopting a new “cap-and-invest” law aimed at driving rapid decarbonization without increasing energy costs for ratepayers. -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsCoalElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryNuclearOil & GasSolarUnited StatesWind
Biden Could Mandate 80% Emissions-Free Grid by 2030
The Biden administration is considering a national clean energy standard to get 80% of the country’s electricity from emissions-free sources by 2030, as a ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas
Cheap Renewables, Net-Zero Promises Could Produce $100 Billion in Stranded Gas Assets
With renewable energy costs dropping dramatically, and mounting pressure from investors to abandon natural gas, utilities and gas producers are facing a quick, stark ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFood SecurityHydropowerJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionRenewable EnergySub-National Governments
Site C Man Camp Makes Good Use of Waste Food on Project Meant to Inundate Prime Farmland
A B.C. man camp operator’s well-intentioned plan to keep waste food out of the nearest landfill is colliding with the permanent food security impact ... -
BuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemographicsEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsUnited States
New Start-Up Aims to Build U.S. Energy Equity One Neighbourhood at a Time
To be poor and a person of colour in the United States all too often means living with energy poverty and its associated health ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarUnited StatesWind
Record 260 GW of New Capacity in 2020 ‘Marks Start of the Decade of Renewables’, IRENA Says
Renewable energy producers around the world installed a record 260 billion watts of new capacity last year, with China and the United States setting ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWind
Climate-Denying Kansas Senator Plans Straitjacket for $14-Billion State Wind Industry
At hearings last week chaired by a climate change denier and green energy critic, the utilities committee of the Kansas Senate considered a measure ... -
AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionChinaClimate & SocietyEuropeFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryOceansRenewable EnergyUnited StatesWind
U.S. Aims for 30,000 MW of Offshore Wind as Industry Urges Faster Global Deployment
The Biden administration has unveiled a US$3-billion plan of loan guarantees and accelerated permitting aimed at installing as many as 2,000 offshore wind turbines ... -
BioenergyCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridGeothermalHydropowerJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarSub-National GovernmentsWind
Growth of Canada’s Renewable Energy Capacity to Slow Through 2023
Renewable electricity capacity in Canada will grow over the next few years at less than half the rate it’s seen in recent years, according ... -
Batteries/StorageCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentHydropowerInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportRenewable EnergyShale & FrackingSolarUnited StatesWind
‘Conventional Energy Bubble’ Could Cost Utilities $1 Trillion as Cheap Renewables Undercut Fossil Plants
Power utilities are on track to lose US$1 trillion over the next 15 years after analysts, agencies, and bankers grossly overestimated the revenue they’re ... -
Climate & SocietyDemand & DistributionEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsRenewable EnergyUnited StatesWind
Indigenous-Led Dakota Wind Project Holds Lessons for Just Transition
With some of the windiest places on the continent sited within their territories, six Oceti Sakowin (Lakota) tribes in South Dakota are three years ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionChinaClimate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionRenewable EnergySolarUnited StatesWind
‘Default Effect’ Drives Massive Growth in Green Power Adoption
When green power is the fallback option for electricity consumers, the large majority of them will accept it rather than going to the trouble ...
