ComEd

The agreement means ComEd will be able to power its facilities with 100 percent clean energy produced at the same time and place it is consumed, a ‘first’ for an investor-owned U.S. utility.

Utilities keeping customers connected while coronavirus fears intensify

Much of the U.S. utility power generation sector has responded to the coronavirus scare in the best way it knows — making sure customers keep their electricity in a crisis. Dozens of utilities have announced policies to suspend service disconnections or late-payment fees. Many, if not all, are encouraging non-critical function employees to work from home. The critical employees are

ComEd leader Donnelly offers insights on grid modernization, STEM education and microgrids

Think of them as the four dials on a proverbial utility clock: Top of the hour grid reliability, quarter past intermittent renewables, climate change at the bottom and cost efficiency on the left hand side. It’s enough to keep utility executives awake at night. Power sector transformation is a nice catchphrase, but it’s a time-consuming, thorny and irresistible matter for

Emissions

Massachusetts utilities clearly lead the way on saving energy, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. The ACEEE’s latest Utility Scorecard ranked two of the Bay State’s utilities together at the top of the list. Eversource Energy and National Grid Massachusetts were co-No. 1s for the second time in the energy efficiency ranking’s four-year history. The ACEEE

New Projects – Renewables

Privately held energy infrastructure investment and management firm Competitive Power Ventures announced its latest renewable project will be a solar farm built in Pennsylvania. Maryland-based CPV, known for building numerous gas-fired power plants in the U.S., will oversee work on the 150-MW Maple Hill solar facility in Portage and Summerhill Townships. Construction could begin by the end of this year.

ComEd engages students in Solar Spotlight STEM event for Black History Month

Chicago-based utility Commonwealth Edison is honoring Black History Month by involving African-American high school students in projects surrounding solar energy and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. ComEd held its fifth annual Solar Spotlight program this month. More than 90 local high schools participated in the event, which both highlights renewable technology but also explores the STEM training and

Coal

New Orleans is the most European of U.S. cities, a low-lying port founded by the French, run by the Spanish for a time and long one of America’s most popular …

O&M

Clarion Energy (part of Clarion Events) today unveiled Enlit — the new name for European Utility Week and POWERGEN Europe — in front of 18,000 industry lead…

O&M

After six years of active duty — including tours in South Korea and Iraq — Army Sgt. William Lones wanted to come home to better help his wife raise their t…

Policy & Regulation

Butler is an 11-year veteran of Exelon and has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the utilities industry and in regulatory, legislative and public a…

Nuclear

Exelon has taken its nuclear-powered Braidwood Generating Station Unit 1 out of service for a planned refueling outage. The refueling and maintenance outages ty…

Decentralized Energy

Connectedness. Community. Security. From a human point of view, those are things most humans want. This is no different when it comes to our energy desires. Mic…

Energy Storage

Sometimes in New Orleans you might hear a little Cajun-French phrase called “lagniappe.” Pronounced “lan-yap,” it reportedly means “a little e…

O&M

The utility was ripped by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on social media as he said that ConEd should have been more prepared for the extremely high temperatures hi…

News

The Institute’s chairmanship rotates on an annual basis, and Crane succeeds Lynn J. Good, chairman, president, and CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy…