Why utilities resist simple upgrades to boost renewables

More wind and solar energy could flow through existing power lines if utilities took advantage of a years-old technology. But bureaucracy...

By Peter Behr | 11/23/2022 06:49 AM EST

FILE - Central Maine Power utility lines are seen on Oct. 6, 2021, in Pownal, Maine. Maine's highest court on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, breathed new life into a $1 billion transmission line that aims to serve as conduit for Canadian hydropower, ruling that a statewide vote rebuking the project was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Power lines in Pownal, Maine.AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File

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Western states ponder regional grid as renewables grow

By Jason Plautz | 11/22/2022 06:51 AM EST

An orange sky illuminates the gas-powered Valley Generating Station in Sun Valley, Calif.David McNew/Getty Images

EPA floats sharply increased social cost of carbon

By Niina H. Farah, Lesley Clark | 11/21/2022 06:27 AM EST

Machine operator Chuck Smith watches as solar panels are manufactured on the assembly line at the First Solar manufacturing plant, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Walbridge, Ohio. First Solar is a leading global provider of comprehensive PV solar systems using advanced module and system technology.

2 companies plan to build massive U.S. solar factories

By David Iaconangelo | 11/18/2022 07:06 AM EST

Snow-laden tree branches are seen swaying in the wind behind power lines and transformers in a part of northern Durham, N.C. that got several inches of snow on Thursday Feb. 26, 2015. Thousands of customers were without power in Durham County after the storm. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew)

Regional grids ‘rolling the dice’ on weather — watchdog

By Peter Behr | 11/18/2022 07:04 AM EST

FERC building, Richard Glick, Wind Turbine

FERC meeting: Grid rules, a boost for gas and Manchin

By Miranda Willson | 11/18/2022 07:03 AM EST

What a Republican House means for energy

By Jason Plautz | 11/17/2022 07:07 AM EST

The Freeport LNG facility in Texas was pictured in a news release last year.

Fatigue contributed to Texas LNG explosion, probe says

By Mike Soraghan, Mike Lee, Carlos Anchondo | 11/16/2022 07:06 AM EST

An Air Products and Chemicals Inc. hydrogen production facility in Geismar, La.

La. legal showdown may preview national battle over hydrogen

By David Iaconangelo | 11/16/2022 07:05 AM EST

Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Gabe Klein.

Meet the Biden official overseeing $7.5B for EVs

By David Ferris | 11/15/2022 07:16 AM EST

FILE - President Joe Biden shows a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, June 23, 2022, with governors, labor leaders, and private companies launching the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership. The Biden administration says it will hold its first offshore wind auction next month. It's offering nearly 500,000 acres off the coast of New York and New Jersey for wind energy projects that could produce enough electricity to power nearly 2 million homes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Inflation’s next victim: U.S. offshore wind projects

By Benjamin Storrow, Heather Richards | 11/15/2022 07:16 AM EST

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., in 2021. EPA has released an updated proposal to regulate methane emissions that includes a "super-emitter" provision.

How EPA’s draft methane rule targets ‘super-emitters’

By Mike Lee, Carlos Anchondo | 11/14/2022 06:57 AM EST

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