• Families, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies across Arkansas are demanding renewable energy, and retiring these old plants is an important step to transform our electric grid and attract new businesses. (talkbusiness.net)
  • Taruc explains that investor-owned or private utilities often lobby for laws that make it hard for people to switch to renewable energy. (earthjustice.org)
  • He is a high-achieving business development leader and recognized throughout the utility industry for his strategic work around technology, commercial trading, renewable energy, and electric distribution operations consulting. (bv.com)
  • I thank President Obama for the opportunity to lead FERC at a time when our nation faces the challenge of providing consumers with access to clean, renewable energy and ensuring that our nation can deliver that energy in the most efficient, smart and technologically sophisticated manner possible," said Wellinghoff in a statement . (grist.org)
  • This month, the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee unanimously approved a bill that would expand the use of renewable natural gas in New Jersey's goal to reach 100% clean energy by 2050. (managenergy.tv)
  • Regulators should require utility companies to carefully consider whether ratepayers would be better off by retiring old coal plants and boosting electricity generation from natural gas and renewable energy sources like wind. (commondreams.org)
  • Green-e® Energy is the global retail standard for high-quality renewable energy, and the largest and oldest independent, third-party certification for renewable energy in North America. (green-e.org)
  • Previously, he served as senior vice president of regulatory and state governmental affairs, responsible for directing regulatory and legislative priorities and as FPL's chief development officer, where he managed all generation development at the utility, including renewable, fossil and nuclear projects. (altenergymag.com)
  • Hannah Solar, LLC is a 5-year-old turnkey Renewable Energy Provider, specializing in planning, design, installation and maintenance of renewable energy solutions for the Southeast. (altenergymag.com)
  • California utilities , perhaps inspired by the trials of the old film houses, are leading the response to demands from their "audience" for more renewable energy. (utilitydive.com)
  • Most of the utilities in the Ceres top ten - including Sempra, Edison, PG&E, Xcel, National Grid, PSE&G of New Jersey, and Eversource - are in states that set more ambitious clean energy goals than federal policies, including renewable portfolio standards, cap-and-trade schemes and other policies. (utilitydive.com)
  • A majority of 2014's bottom ten - Duke, Dominion, Entergy, SCANA, American Electric Power, Florida Power & Light, and Southern Company - are based in or have significant presences in the Southeast U.S., where policy drivers for renewable energy are notoriously weak, Bakal added. (utilitydive.com)
  • Though its regulated utility, San Diego Gas & Electric, doesn't rank in the top 20 electric utilities by size , it sold the fifth highest number of renewable MWh among IOUs in 2014. (utilitydive.com)
  • Wind turbines tower over rural vistas in the heartland, where the clean energy source is becoming increasingly popular with utility companies that face state-mandated renewable energy standards. (americanenergyalliance.org)
  • A total of 14% of all new cars sold were electric in 2022, up from 9% in 2021 and less than 5% in 2020. (wikipedia.org)
  • NEWARK, N.J. - June 9, 2022) Public Service Electric and Gas, New Jersey's largest utility, is well prepared to support customers and the state for what experts say could be another very active hurricane season . (pseg.com)
  • Feb 19, 2022 · The Old Growth Forest Trail sits within Hartwick Pines State Park, which can be accessed via State Park Drive in Grayling. (sauerland-alm.de)
  • Over the past eight years, Preece has been a senior advisor at EY, where he provided advisory support to utilities, with a primary focus on digital grid transformation, distributed energy, demand response, and distribution modernization. (bv.com)
  • Tesla plans to allow owners to swap old battery packs for new, with the old ones then being ideal to place in solar powered homes, helping them to get off the grid. (blogspot.com)
  • In his first full day on the job as acting chief, Wellinghoff stressed the need for automobile manufacturers and electric utilities to work together to integrate electric vehicles into the national grid, according to a Dow Jones report . (grist.org)
  • The news continues to point out that the U.S. electrical grid is stressed. (recmanagement.com)
  • Hawaii's utility publishes cool daily charts showing the amount of solar energy being produced in its service areas each day by utility companies and by off-the-grid households. (motherjones.com)
  • California Institute of Technology professor Steven Low believes the electric grid is on the verge of accommodating distributed, interconnected, and omnipresent intelligence. (acm.org)
  • Cyberattacks on small utilities and energy companies can have an outsize impact on communities and the nation's electric grid. (tanium.com)
  • Adopting good cyber hygiene practices is the first step for utilities in defending the power grid. (tanium.com)
  • Even so, the report numbers show overall growth in utility renewables, and executives at both leader and laggard companies told Utility Dive that a paradigm shift toward cleaner energy solutions has influenced how they think about the grid. (utilitydive.com)
  • The windswept prairies of the Midwest are undergoing an energy transformation the electric grid can't handle. (americanenergyalliance.org)
  • Batteries that allow for the storage of energy rather than sending it back to the grid will also impact the amount of energy that consumers rely on utilities for. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • Federal jurors in May convicted four defendants of bribery conspiracy involving the state's largest electric utility. (wgnradio.com)
  • The state's Rate Counsel Brian Lipman has urged lawmakers to expand a program that helps people with low incomes pay their utility bills. (managenergy.tv)
  • Republicans have introduced a half-dozen bills that would change the power and makeup of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, a five-member group appointed by the governor that has the power to regulate the state's big electricity, gas and telecommunication companies. (minnpost.com)
  • The state's three dominant investor-owned utilities (IOUs) topped the just-released Ceres/CleanEdge clean energy deployment rankings. (utilitydive.com)
  • Southern Company, one of the nation's largest private utilities, owns the most coal-fired capacity ready for retirement, followed by government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority. (commondreams.org)
  • Much of the infrastructure running technology at smaller utilities is too old for modern cyber tools, doubling the concern," says Tyler Costello , director of strategic accounts at Tanium who works with several critical infrastructure facilities and one of the nation's largest electric and natural gas providers. (tanium.com)
  • Using electricity was among the preferred methods for motor vehicle propulsion as it provides a level of quietness, comfort and ease of operation that could not be achieved by the gasoline engine cars of the time, but range anxiety due to the limited energy storage offered by contemporary battery technologies hindered any mass adoption of private electric vehicles throughout the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Internal combustion engines (both gasoline and diesel engines) were the dominant propulsion mechanisms for cars and trucks for about 100 years, but electricity-powered locomotion remained commonplace in other vehicle types, such as overhead line-powered mass transit vehicles like electric trains, trams, monorails and trolley buses, as well as various small, low-speed battery-powered personal vehicles such as mobility scooters. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, publicly regulated utilities teamed up with large incumbent firms like General Electric and Westinghouse to build public works projects-a typical reactor could power 1 million homes-at a time when fossil fuels were believed to be scarce and electricity demand was expected to grow exponentially. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • Few utilities or investors are willing to make $10 billion, 60-year bets on large light-water reactors when electricity demand is growing slowly and energy technology-from solar panels to natural gas extraction technologies-is evolving rapidly. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • Be sure to have an electric bill handy to enter the cost per kWh of electricity and the horsepower of your existing pump. (recmanagement.com)
  • This change provided Maine consumers with the ability to choose their electricity supplier - the company that supplies their electric energy. (maine.gov)
  • Until 2000, a single utility company, regulated by the Commission, supplied and delivered electricity. (maine.gov)
  • With electric restructuring, Maine began to develop a competitive market for electricity supply. (maine.gov)
  • Solar electricity is already the cheapest, quickest way to bring power to any home more than half a mile from conventional utilities. (djc.com)
  • While the amount of sunlight in Washington doesn't rival the American Southwest, solar electric modules produce electricity year round, even in the diffuse light of a cloudy Seattle climate. (djc.com)
  • The proposal is likely to butt up against political and legal opposition, even from within the electrical industry , in part because it would involve invoking Cold War-era emergency powers that constitute an unprecedented level of federal intervention in electricity markets. (fivethirtyeight.com)
  • Natural gas from fracking has gotten so cheap, [nuclear plants] aren't as high up in the dispatch stack," he said, referring to the order of resources utilities choose to buy electricity from. (fivethirtyeight.com)
  • Mr. Silagy is president of Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy ,Inc. (NEE), one of the largest investor-owned electric utilities in the nation. (altenergymag.com)
  • Investor-owned utilities have serious concerns about the impact of customer defection. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • Entergy Arkansas on Friday (Nov. 16) inked an historic agreement with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups to shutter the utility's decades-old coal-fired plants and an aging natural gas-generated facility, and replace the fossil-fuel resources with modern and cleaner power options. (talkbusiness.net)
  • Sierra Club is pleased to conclude our legal disputes with Entergy Arkansas and to reach a long-term agreement to stop burning coal at the old White Bluff and Independence power stations," said Glen Hooks, director of the Sierra Club's Arkansas chapter. (talkbusiness.net)
  • For one, a glut of cheap natural gas from fracking operations has steadily eroded coal's share and forced power-plant operators to close many of their older, less efficient plants. (vox.com)
  • Homeowners can choose to switch their appliances to electric power, but utilities don't make it easy. (earthjustice.org)
  • A proven innovator within the power and utility marketplace, Preece has more than 33 years of consulting experience. (bv.com)
  • Beyond electric cars, the facility will also churn out stationary battery packs that can be paired with rooftop solar panels to store power. (blogspot.com)
  • Electrical contractors often have projects that include burying power and communications cable, and, even though the work may be subcontracted, they can be held accountable for damage and injuries resulting from accidentally striking buried infrastructure. (ecmag.com)
  • T he landmark Clean Air Act of 1970 did not take effect until 1972, but the electric power industry began taking steps to reduce pollution from power generation a decade earlier. (nber.org)
  • With an aging infrastructure and constrained capacity, utility providers are looking for ways to get rapid reductions in the amount of power they need to provide. (recmanagement.com)
  • With more than 322,000 commercial aquatic facilities in the United States, pumping 70 billion gallons of water, utilities are looking at commercial aquatic pump rooms as an area where they can get quick reductions in power demand. (recmanagement.com)
  • CPS Energy, a local utility provider in San Antonio, Texas, is an example of a utility looking for quick reductions in power usage. (recmanagement.com)
  • Ripe for Retirement ranks the states and utilities with the most coal-fired power capacity that should be considered for closure. (commondreams.org)
  • Duke Energy, American Electric Power and FirstEnergy, though high on the list, have fewer economically vulnerable generators, in part, because they each have already announced they are closing several coal generators. (commondreams.org)
  • Shuttering the 59 GW of coal-fired generators the study identified along with 41 GW already slated for closure would reduce the electric power sector's annual carbon dioxide emissions up to 16.4 percent, or 410 million tons, depending on what resource replaces coal. (commondreams.org)
  • Republicans have introduced a half-dozen bills that would change the power and makeup of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. (minnpost.com)
  • Delivery service is still provided by the local utility (now called a distribution company), such as Versant Power, Central Maine Power, or one of Maine's consumer owned utilities. (maine.gov)
  • Replacing a 30-year-old air conditioner with a more efficient new one will significantly reduce the power associated with cooling. (motherjones.com)
  • Entergy New Orleans operates one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the nation. (green-e.org)
  • He might have to do marketing as well," says Carter Manucy, director of cybersecurity at the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA), a coalition of 32 utilities across the state, a member of the American Public Power Association. (tanium.com)
  • Because small utilities don't have as much oversight "criminal hackers may think they are an easier prey," says Nicholas Abi-Samra, an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego, who teaches classes on power systems and provides consulting services to the electric utility industry. (tanium.com)
  • Washington, DC, July 10, 2012 - Executives from utility, manufacturing and finance share the stage at Solar Power International 2012 (SPI '12) to discuss how their companies manage uncertainty due to the changing nature of policy. (altenergymag.com)
  • Hannah Solar and Worry Free Power are focused on the assets both companies bring to the table for the implementation of the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure for Residential, Commercial and Photovoltaic Canopy installation services. (altenergymag.com)
  • We are seeing pretty dramatic growth in the use of renewables by utilities," said Dan Bakal, Ceres electric power programs director and lead author of " Benchmarking Utility Clean Energy Deployment . (utilitydive.com)
  • The average age of a nuclear power plant in this country is 38 years old (compared with 24 years old for a natural gas power plant). (fivethirtyeight.com)
  • Decentralization of power generation and a rapidly shrinking talent pool are risks that utility companies will continue to grapple with for years to come. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • Now, utilities are being asked to accommodate power flowing in both directions, to and from consumers, without compromising safety and reliability. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • The imbalance for utilities is that while some customers are producing all or a portion of their own power, the centralized utility is still required to support the entire infrastructure for all sources of production. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • This is a critical risk, but it's like a glacier, it's moving slowly," said Dan McGarvey, managing director with Marsh's U.S. Power & Utility Practice . (riskandinsurance.com)
  • By the time Bush departed his job as governor of Texas in December 2000, Texas had - according to a report from within the ranks of his own party - become the number-one state in the nation in manufacturing-plant emissions of toxic chemicals, in the release of industrial airborne toxins, in violations of clean water discharge standards and the release of toxic waste into underground wells. (minesandcommunities.org)
  • The law that required the restructuring of the electric utility industry in Maine was passed in March 2000. (maine.gov)
  • Whilst ICEVs have been steadily reducing their emissions since 2000, electric vehicles still have a marked edge by producing close to no running emissions. (forbes.com)
  • Vermont utilities, regulators and the Governor have in recent years worked successfully to stop in-state wind energy and slow down solar installations. (vbsr.org)
  • This work contributed to PSE&G customers experiencing fewer outages and the utility achieving strong reliability performances for 2021, one of the best in the last 10 years. (pseg.com)
  • Musk said the cheaper electric crossover sports utility vehicle (SUV) will be available from the spring of 2021. (forbes.com)
  • for the Tesla Model Y crossover electric vehicle in Hawthorne, California. (forbes.com)
  • In 2107, California utilities projected that CCA programs could result in the departure of up to 80 percent of their retail customers and load. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • EVs include but are not limited to road and rail vehicles, and broadly can also include electric boat and underwater vessels (submersibles, and technically also nuclear submarines), electric aircraft and electric spacecraft. (wikipedia.org)
  • Faced with energy insecurity and high prices, publicly controlled utilities and state-owned enterprises in nations like France and Sweden build out a nuclear reactor fleet in the same way that they built publicly funded highways and rail systems. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • But in a world in which fossil fuels are abundant and industrial planning long ago fell out of fashion, the old top-down and state-led model of nuclear development has not fared well. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • In general, the high cost of nuclear plants is a deterrent (these five reactors are all being built in highly regulated states where utilities can recoup their costs by raising rates). (vox.com)
  • Executives from such companies and organisations as Chevron, ExxonMobil, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Westinghouse, Edison Electric Institute and the American Petroleum Institute consulted with the committee between six and 19 times. (minesandcommunities.org)
  • Citing inadequate information provided to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the plant's safety, the coalition wants a federal court to invalidate the relicensing of the 40-year-old facility. (tmia.com)
  • COLUMBIA, S.C. - The environmental organization Friends of the Earth has today filed an appeal with the South Carolina Supreme Court challenging the legality of a South Carolina Public Service Commission decision approving an application by South Carolina Electric & Gas to build two new nuclear reactors. (tmia.com)
  • Just last week, several outlets reported on a leaked memo detailing a proposed Trump administration plan directing electric utilities to buy more from nuclear generators and coal plants in an effort to prop up the two struggling industries. (fivethirtyeight.com)
  • There's an ongoing push to rotate out of coal and nuclear and into natural gas, with utilities voluntarily shutting down coal plants, building natural gas plants, converting coal plants to natural gas, as well as developing their own solar and wind resources. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • The expanded offerings being launched and managed by the new Black & Veatch experts include new consulting capabilities involving future utility investments, transformational utility business modeling and issues relating to organizational design, sustainability, distributed energy, infrastructure modernization, and asset management. (bv.com)
  • Ten years after Superstorm Sandy raged across the East Coast, PSE&G continues to protect customers' utility service from the damaging impact of extreme weather by strengthening and upgrading its infrastructure. (pseg.com)
  • It's time to write new laws and invest in new infrastructure to support renewables, combat climate change, switch to electric heating, new transportation systems, local food production, local schools and re-localizing our lifestyles. (vbsr.org)
  • On Friday, President Obama appointed Jon Wellinghoff to be the acting chairman of the agency, where he will oversee interstate electric transmission, gas transportation, and opening wholesale markets to renewables. (grist.org)
  • Solar panels and LED lightbulbs might be good for the world, but they're starting to hurt America's utility companies. (motherjones.com)
  • Between 2010 and 2012, electric utilities retired 145 generators , with an average age of 55 years old. (vox.com)
  • The U.S. electric industry, more than 130 years old, is navigating its most dynamic moment as the nation's energy ecosystem changes with the surge of green energy. (bv.com)
  • There are more than 85,000 dams in the U.S., and the average age is just over 51 years old. (whereistheoutrage.net)
  • This article is more than 4 years old. (forbes.com)
  • Police Captain Mark Gagan said the arrests, all peaceful, included three people in wheelchairs and demonstrators as young as 18 years old. (americanenergyalliance.org)
  • Adult--A person 18 years old or over. (cdc.gov)
  • Emancipated Minor--This person is either: 14 to 17 years old and married or living with a partner OR 14 to 17 years old and living on his or her own without the supervision of an adult family member or legal guardian. (cdc.gov)
  • Any family member, 18 years old or older, or an emancipated minor, may respond to questions in the Family Section. (cdc.gov)
  • You should try to have all family members, 17 years old and older, who are at home at the time of interview present for the Family Section. (cdc.gov)
  • This is centrally a job for entrepreneurial engineers, not scientists at national laboratories, technocrats at the Department of Energy, or division heads at Westinghouse or General Electric. (thebreakthrough.org)
  • As electric, oil and gas, and water industries and their customers grapple with changing economics, technology, and policy, Black & Veatch's Management Consulting business is adding five executives to broaden its services to the evolving resource sector. (bv.com)
  • Prosecutors said McClain, two former ComEd executives and a former utility consultant arranged contracts, jobs and money for associates of Madigan's to ensure proposed bills boosting ComEd profits became law. (wgnradio.com)
  • A new order by New Hampshire's utility regulator stops the state dead in its energy efficiency tracks and shackles it to its outdated previous plan. (acadiacenter.org)
  • After a year of delay and opposition by some legislators and business groups, the NH Public Utilities Commission rejected a new energy efficiency plan developed as a consensus by utilities, government entities, consumer groups, and Acadia Center and its partners. (acadiacenter.org)
  • Many states require regulated utilities to run, fund, or offer energy efficiency programs. (motherjones.com)
  • To ensure top-notch performance, energy efficiency and utility savings, Unitas decided to install A. O. Smith's newest and most efficient residential water heater, the Voltex® AL (anti-leak) Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH). (hotwater.com)
  • Anywhere electric reliability is critical, solar is the emerging answer. (djc.com)
  • They operate beyond the oversight and protection of the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NAERC). (tanium.com)
  • This paper describes four basic universal criteria present in persistent beliefs: intuitibility, predictability, reliability and utility (IPRU). (bvsalud.org)
  • Electric road vehicles include electric passenger cars, electric buses, electric trucks and personal transporters such as electric buggy, electric tricycles, electric bicycles and electric motorcycles/scooters. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 2023 show promises a complete range of vehicles including passenger cars, trucks, utility vehicles, concept cars, electric vehicles (EV), collector cars, ultra-luxury supercars and more. (chicagoautoshow.com)
  • And it's a clean energy source that contributes to lower carbon emissions and helps the nation achieve its climate goals. (managenergy.tv)
  • In addition, the utility would also retire its Lake Catherine natural gas-powered facility by 2027. (talkbusiness.net)
  • Its Universal Service Fund (USF) is designed to help low-income customers pay no more than six percent of their income toward natural gas and electric bills. (managenergy.tv)
  • Managing Partner, Julian Belilty, has played a key role in managing Howard University's electric and natural gas procurement efforts since 2015. (honeydewadvisors.com)
  • We see a fundamental shift happening within the electric utility segment, and it's one that releases the old image of consumers as ratepayers and instead sees them as community members," said Camus Energy CEO and co-founder Astrid Atkinson . (girlgeek.io)
  • The utility companies responsible for pumping gas through the nation's arteries could choose health over profit by investing in clean energy. (earthjustice.org)
  • Under that system, which still operates today, Minnesota awards exclusive service areas to certain utility companies, and in return, those companies must provide non-discriminatory service to everyone in that area, with the cost regulated by a public entity like the Legislature or the courts. (minnpost.com)
  • In a contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, teams made up of local governments, solar and technology companies, and electric utilities will compete for a total of $10 million in cash prizes that will go back into local communities. (altenergymag.com)
  • Smaller utility companies, which lack funds and staff for cyber defenses, are increasingly at risk. (tanium.com)
  • Ceres surveyed the 30 biggest U.S. electric utility holding companies and their 87 subsidiary companies. (utilitydive.com)
  • They all look like small changes but they all add up to a big change in utility regulations," said Annie Levenson-Falk, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board, a newly-formed organization that advocates for energy consumers in Minnesota. (minnpost.com)
  • With more than 30 years of experience consulting, Hendrickson most recently was a Deloitte industry executive who consulted on corporate and competitive market strategies and broad transformational performance improvement planning within the utility industry. (bv.com)
  • Hendrickson is considered a driving force in the industry, brings to the consulting team senior-level expertise in wholesale and retail markets, business strategy, next generation business capability models and digital strategy analytics across both the competitive and regulated electric and gas markets. (bv.com)
  • He spent 12 years within the utility industry before transitioning to a career of more than 20 years in management consulting. (bv.com)
  • As competition increases in the residential electric supply industry in Maine, the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) wants to educate consumers about how competition works. (maine.gov)
  • Like its peers across the industry, the Wisconsin Rapids utility is digitizing its operation, using technologies like smart metering , online payment portals , and cloud computing platforms. (tanium.com)
  • California's film industry may have taught the Golden State something that folks in other parts of the nation are just beginning to understand. (utilitydive.com)
  • Change is constant in the utilities industry, but the pace of that change has accelerated in recent years and will continue to do so. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • Here are seven critical risks facing the utilities industry. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • The first mass-produced electric vehicles appeared in America in the early 1900s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Minnesota's electric utilities have been regulated as far back as the early 1900s, but not always by the PUC. (minnpost.com)
  • By bolstering our already deeply respected management consulting team with these experts and expanded services, utilities can rely on us even more for their road map to solutions and sustainability. (bv.com)
  • According to John Mottel, owner of Rainshadow Solar on Orcas Island, at least 300 homes in the San Juan Islands rely on the sun for their electrical needs. (djc.com)
  • Von Weihe was an executive leader with Structure prior to that company's acquisition by Accenture, providing senior-level leadership and sales strategy support to drive its software and technology business, with a focus on the energy and utility segment. (bv.com)
  • Over the past 5 years, he has been a managing director within Navigant's energy practice, leading the global utility client segment. (bv.com)
  • In 1902, the Studebaker Automobile Company entered the automotive business with electric vehicles, though it also entered the gasoline vehicles market in 1904. (wikipedia.org)
  • Whether locates are made by the utility owner, a contract locating company or contractors, the basic tool for the task is an electromagnetic locator. (ecmag.com)
  • Many pool professionals use the figures they generate from these cost calculators as the basis for presenting the need to upgrade to more efficient equipment or add a variable frequency drive, and also to show prospective savings capabilities to an electric company to be approved for possible rebates for using more energy-efficient products or VFDs. (recmanagement.com)
  • If you see you are receiving services from a company you have not selected, call that company and tell them you dispute the change of your electric supply service to their company. (maine.gov)
  • The alliance, which includes Pacific Gas and Electric Company, SolarCity, Qado Energy, Accela and the City of Livermore, will compete in the small systems category (1 - 100 kW) for a first-place prize of $3 million and second-place prize of $1 million. (altenergymag.com)
  • McKissack & McKissack provided interior design services for the partial renovation of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) headquarters. (mckinc.com)
  • History of the Area The Story Behind The Pines: In 1927, Karen Michelson Hartwick purchased over 8,000 acres of land, which included 85 acres of old growth white pine, from the Salling-Hanson Company of Grayling. (sauerland-alm.de)
  • As a result, the state has stepped up its effort to help customers pay their utility bills. (managenergy.tv)
  • PPL Electric Utilities may soon settle with petitioners, if a judge gives approval to offer customers a voluntary alternative energy program and to Bank Alternative Energy Credits. (tmia.com)
  • PSE&G has received the Mid-Atlantic ReliabilityOne award from PA Consulting for 20 consecutive years, additional evidence that our efforts to strengthen our electric system is benefiting customers. (pseg.com)
  • How can customers make sure they have the electric supplier they want? (maine.gov)
  • Weve worked hard to become the nations leading utility for customers using solar systems. (altenergymag.com)
  • Member utilities pass the co-op savings on to their customers. (djc.com)
  • Net metering requires Washington utilities to allow customers to spin their electric meters backwards, effectively storing summer sun for winter use. (djc.com)
  • Small utilities, those serving a few thousand customers or less, are particularly vulnerable. (tanium.com)
  • It's a new era of inclusive energy and our community-centric utility customers and service providers are using the Camus platform to provide their communities a meaningful way to collectively participate in our nation's clean energy transition. (girlgeek.io)
  • Utilities must navigate a complex path while serving customers and create value for stakeholders. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • Okanogan Electric Co-op promotes solar as a viable alternative to line extensions, as do several other Northwest utilities. (djc.com)
  • This will help the utility prioritize replacing leak-prone pipes in areas where residents and businesses are most vulnerable to leaks, reducing pollution and giving people cleaner air to breathe. (managenergy.tv)
  • An argument that is routinely put forward to contrast the clean image of electric cars is the pollution behind the manufacturing process of their batteries. (forbes.com)
  • Up to $850 in Local Utility Rebates may be available in your area! (hotwater.com)
  • Elon) Musk's giant battery factory may soon become an existential threat to the 100-year-old utility business model. (blogspot.com)
  • That is an unregulated product you can buy at Home Depot that leaves the old business model with no place to hide. (blogspot.com)
  • However, not all utility providers are members of one call, and one-call centers do not arrange locates on private property such as business and industrial parks, educational institutions and government complexes. (ecmag.com)
  • Alexandria Real Estate Equities owns, operates, and develops life science and high tech business campuses across the nation. (honeydewadvisors.com)
  • It was an easy choice to make-they're the best in the business and my old heater didn't come close, Johnny Unitas Jr. said. (hotwater.com)
  • Three years later, 248 Native American students are enrolled in SOBA, the largest number of Native American business majors in the nation. (fortlewis.edu)
  • Utilities did relatively little to retrofit older plants. (nber.org)
  • After 1972, production by older plants decreased in nonattainment counties but held steady in attainment counties, and production by new plants increased much more in attainment than in nonattainment counties. (nber.org)
  • Spending billions to upgrade old coal plants may simply be throwing good money after bad. (commondreams.org)
  • Plants that are candidates for retirement are typically older, less efficient, underutilized, and more polluting than the rest of the nation's coal fleet. (commondreams.org)
  • Typically, the goals of CCAs are to lower costs for consumers and to control the energy mix, offering a greener generation portfolio than the local utility. (riskandinsurance.com)
  • The researchers suggest that electric utilities viewed the 1963 clean air legislation as a precursor of much stricter regulation to come. (nber.org)
  • BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- At a recent house party near the U.S.-Mexico border, the conversation with Democratic congressional candidate Rochelle Garza flowed from schools and taxes to immigration and efforts to convert an old railway line into a hiking trail. (dtnpf.com)
  • NJNG is wholly owned by publicly traded regional utility New Jersey Resources. (managenergy.tv)
  • With this framework, the Government will no longer have to negotiate individual agency programmes and projects and can concentrate its efforts on joint annual planning that includes all United Nations agencies. (who.int)
  • New Hampshire has some of the oldest and leakiest housing stock in the nation and a high dependency on fossil fuels for heating. (acadiacenter.org)
  • Clean electric heating and whole house electrification must be priorities to support the acceleration of clean energy resources and the transition away from fossil fuels. (acadiacenter.org)
  • Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, where electric motors can be used as the predominant propulsion rather than a supplement, did not see any mass production until the late 2000s, and battery electric cars did not become practical options for the consumer market until the 2010s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Longtime partner of the Chicago Auto Show, Cars.com now becomes a premier sponsor of the 2023 show with a branding presence throughout the event, official map sponsorship, Chicago Drives Electric sponsor, and a digital package to promote its Best of 2023 awards. (chicagoautoshow.com)
  • Now in its 14th year, the awards announce Cars.com experts' top vehicle picks in six categories: luxury, electric, family, pickup truck, SUV, and the best overall vehicle. (chicagoautoshow.com)
  • Of particular note is that for citizens wealthy enough to own electric cars, the city provides several free charging stations, including one at city hall. (claremont-courier.com)
  • of electric cars in the world, and running on mostly hydropower they are also the cleanest. (forbes.com)
  • The 68-year-old Tim Mapes, who served for almost two decades as Madigan's chief of staff, faces single counts of perjury and attempted obstruction of justice. (wgnradio.com)
  • For decades, the 81-year-old Madigan was one of the most powerful state legislative leaders in the nation. (wgnradio.com)
  • If more than one household member owns or rents the sample unit, designate the oldest member as the reference person. (cdc.gov)
  • If none of the household members owns or rents the sample unit, designate the oldest household member as the reference person. (cdc.gov)
  • The District of Columbia's DOEE requires all buildings over 50,000 square feet report their utility data consumption on a monthly basis. (honeydewadvisors.com)
  • The total impact of electric vehicles is more pronounced when looking at their complete lifetime, where combustion engine vehicles are unable to compete. (forbes.com)
  • Texas has one of the largest installed number of commercial pools in the nation with well over 30,000 installed pools as of 2012. (recmanagement.com)
  • A member of the Navajo Nation, Joe wanted to join her family's thriving mercantile legacy on the largest Indian reservation in the U.S. But first, she needed to build the skills. (fortlewis.edu)
  • As the Greater Philadelphia region's oldest and largest land conservation organization, Natural Lands has preserved more than 125,000 acres, including 43 nature preserves totaling more than 23,000 acres. (natlands.org)
  • They feel the need to modernize, in part to fend off takeover efforts by larger utilities, but they often are reluctant to (or simply cannot) raise rates or local taxes to pay for the upgrades. (tanium.com)
  • That's because private utilities don't want to share access to the ability to profit from clean energy - which would take money away from the wealthy investors that control them. (earthjustice.org)
  • Since the first modern electric vehicles (EV) took to the roads in the 2000s, critics have been quick to question the 'clean' label attached to them. (forbes.com)
  • With the amount of debate and misinformation troubling the waters, the facts behind the efficiency of electric vehicles have become somewhat clouded - so just how clean are these vehicles? (forbes.com)
  • Electric utilities continue to bury new distribution cable, and many are now replacing portions of old underground cable and have active programs to replace aerial lines underground. (ecmag.com)
  • As a result, these utilities often can't afford an on-site IT professional. (tanium.com)
  • Raising that money is a stretch for small rural utilities, which often serve low-income families who can't afford the higher energy bills that would be needed to pay for the investment. (tanium.com)
  • The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) initiated a collective, iterative, and participative process to achieve this and organized two expert consultative workshops in 2018 to develop core competencies for field veterinary epidemiology at the frontline and intermediate levels. (cdc.gov)
  • Solar electric systems have found their way into backyards and onto rooftops from Republic in northeastern Washington to Clark County in the southwest part of the state. (djc.com)
  • Apr 26, 2023 · Hartwick Pines State Park (Crawford County) Project to upgrade the electrical system, Modern campground will temporarily close during the month of October. (sauerland-alm.de)
  • We see this effort aligning with our companys goal of supplying utilities the advanced technology they need to provide highly responsive customer service along with the next generation distribution system analytics software necessary to streamline, automate and reduce the cost of interconnecting distributed energy resources across our nations grids," said Brian Fitzsimons, CEO, Qado Energy. (altenergymag.com)
  • The town has the distinction of hosting what may well be the first self-service RV park in the nation. (rvtravel.com)
  • With McKissack's direction and interior design services, BGE-the nation's oldest utility-developed and executed a program to renovate its headquarters in Baltimore's downtown. (mckinc.com)
  • As a part of this engagement, Honeydew also provided complimentary utility benchmarking services for their entire campus. (honeydewadvisors.com)
  • Electrical distribution and telephone cable have routinely been installed underground since the 1970s. (ecmag.com)
  • Hybrid electric vehicles, where electric motors are used as a supplementary propulsion to internal combustion engines, became more widespread in the late 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
  • I'd add another factor, one that the Journal underplays: Utilities are confronting the prospect of significant and widespread demand destruction . (motherjones.com)
  • Together with other emerging automotive technologies such as autonomous driving, connected vehicles and shared mobility, EVs form a future vision of transportation called Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electric (CASE) mobility. (wikipedia.org)
  • Early electric vehicles first came into existence in the late 19th century, when the Second Industrial Revolution brought forth electrification. (wikipedia.org)
  • The International Energy Agency has stated that governments should do more to meet climate goals, including policies for heavy electric vehicles. (wikipedia.org)
  • a 2020 literature review suggested that growth in the use of four-wheeled electric vehicles appears economically unlikely in developing economies, but growth in electric two-wheeler and three-wheeler is likely. (wikipedia.org)
  • Are Electric Vehicles Really Better For The Environment? (forbes.com)
  • A new study by the Center for Economic Studies (CES) in Munich proclaimed: "Germany's current energy mix and the amount of energy used in battery production, the CO 2 emissions of battery-electric vehicles are, in the best case, slightly higher than those of a diesel engine, and are otherwise much higher. (forbes.com)
  • Smaller utilities have to contend with outdated systems, budget constraints, and limited resources. (tanium.com)
  • While large U.S. utilities have deep pockets to beef up cybersecurity-to protect their networks and the thousands of endpoints that connect to it-smaller utilities and energy providers often lack the budgets to do the same. (tanium.com)
  • In England, a patent was granted in 1840 for the use of rails as conductors of electric current, and similar American patents were issued to Lilley and Colten in 1847. (wikipedia.org)
  • Solar electric systems are sprouting up like mushrooms in Pierce, Snohomish and even in King counties. (djc.com)
  • After doing an initial energy audit of the city, using tools similar to those of a typical cost calculator, the city determined that by retrofitting 22 city-owned pools, the utility would experience a dramatic reduction in energy demand and the city would get a payback on the project in less than one year! (recmanagement.com)
  • Switching from gas to electric appliances would remove deadly chemicals from our living spaces and our environment. (earthjustice.org)