23+ hour, 11+ min ago   (602+ words) The renewable energy industry spent two decades making clean power cost-competitive with fossil fuels on its own economic merits. However, the fight nobody fully budgeted for is getting electrons from the farm to the outlet, and it’s becoming the industry’s…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (447+ words) The Dairyland Power Cooperative has been highly essential to the projects that have materialized over the years and is expected to continue playing a huge role, especially during the clean energy transition. It covers a four-state region that includes Wisconsin,…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (537+ words) The August 28 release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement marks a real step forward for the North Plains Connector. DOE and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality coordinated the review together as Joint Lead Agencies, rather than running separate tracks....

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (569+ words) When a government invokes national security to halt an offshore wind project, the warning lands with weight. Turbines rising from the sea — structures tall enough to scrape low clouds, blades spinning wide enough to shadow a city block — do look…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (231+ words) InPipe Energy is a U.S.-based renewable energy and smart water infrastructure company. Its patented modular HydroXS energy recovery system converts water flowing in pipelines into hydropower, the lowest-cost source of renewable energy. InPipe’s patented HydroXS energy recovery system converts water…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (362+ words) The mechanism at the center of this proposal is a “categorical exclusion”—a NEPA designation that lets federal agencies skip project-level environmental review when prior analysis has established that a category of activity causes no significant impacts. The Interior Department…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (564+ words) Mountain lions have made an old federal nuclear test site their new refuge. Across the United States, several federal restricted zones have played varying roles over the years. In general, public access and hunting are banned from these heavily guarded…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (501+ words) For years, solar developers rushing into Illinois’ community solar programs kept running into a brick wall: a rural power grid in ComEd’s western territory that simply had no room left. Standard utility policy required developers to pay for massive electrical…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (644+ words) Nebraska’s renewable energy tax is reshaping some communities, but wind and solar wealth piles up in just 10 counties In 2017, the O’Neill Public School District finally broke ground on something it had been debating for a decade: expanded classrooms, science labs,…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (811+ words) Water does not want to go uphill. Everything else in a canal system is a matter of grading and patience, but a mountain range is a bill that has to be paid in electricity, every acre foot, every time. One…...