Proactive planning, incentives and competitive solicitations can help control transmission costs, the Brattle Group’s Johannes Pfeifenberger said. With transmission costs expected to continue increasing, state utility regulators, energy consumers and transmission...
President-elect Donald Trump said his administration will “dramatically” increase baseload power generation, which “will reduce the cost of electrical bills that continue to skyrocket.” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, will run the newly formed National...
Texas lawmakers authorized System Resiliency Plan filings last year and Oncor’s was the first to be approved. Regulators are also considering submissions from AEP, Texas-New Mexico Power and Entergy. The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Thursday approved Oncor...
The US should build electric transmission lines in places with strong clean-energy potential rather than waiting for solar and wind farms to be developed first, Xcel Energy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bob Frenzel said in an interview Monday. Installing power lines...
All eyes are on a tropical depression in the Caribbean which will become a tropical storm, trigger life-threatening flooding rain in Central America and is forecast to track into Florida next week. A batch of showers and thunderstorms over the central Caribbean was...
As Xcel Energy, PG&E, Hawaiian Electric and others confront catastrophic wildfires, industry observers believe the growing risk could spur innovation in commercial insurance that benefits utilities. 2023 marked yet another year of costly wildfires in various parts...
