NYPA

The New York Power Authority is exploring the ability to transition a natural gas-fired turbine to run on green hydrogen with a demonstration project at Brentwood Power Station.

Backed by EPRI, major utilities launch initiative to accelerate economy-wide deep decarbonization

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Gas Technology Institute (GTI) announced this week that they are embarking on a five-year initiative to accelerate the development and demonstration of low-carbon energy technologies. With the increase of decarbonization goals from private companies and governments, existing technology is not enough to achieve these targets. The Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI) is an international

News

New rulings on New York power markets will protect competition, federal regulators say, while some renewable energy advocates argue that they subsidize fossil fuel resources and go against the state’s clean energy goals. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced Thursday it ruled in four orders dealing with buyer-side market power issues in the New York Independent System Operator Inc’s capacity

Hydroelectric

Burns & McDonnell announces it has won a contract to serve as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for a $134 million electrical control system upgrade and modernization project for New York Power Authority’s 2,525-MW Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant. The control system project is a crucial component of a recently announced $1.1 billion Next Generation Niagara program to extend

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 destinations for tourists. It’s the entry and exit point for ships on global commercial voyages to and from the U.S. It has great ties to the transport of agriculture and

New Projects – Renewables

New Jersey-based utility holding company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is negotiating with Danish energy infrastructure firm à˜rsted about investing in an offshore wind project. PSEG is exclusively talking with à˜rsted about taking a 25 percent stake in Ocean Wind. It is a planned 1,100-MW farm which would be 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic City. If developed and

Coal

If variety is the spice of life, there’s no better place than New Orleans to showcase that idiom in action. We hear that. POWERGEN International is happening …

Renewables

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has given its “no objection” determination to Dominion Energy’s planned Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. Domi…

Batteries

Key Capture Energy has completed its 20-MW battery storage installation and kicked off an ambitious New York state program surrounding incentives to develop ene…

Hydroelectric

The nine-year contract will support a multi-phase refurbishment of the Niagara plant’s head gates and stop log rails. These are large underwater mechanical st…

Renewables

Duke Energy Renewables showed off its Shoreham Solar Commons Project, a 24.9-MW site near Brookhaven, New York. Shoreham Solar Commons was placed into service i…

O&M

The project will field test new technologies with the goal of making transmission system inspections safer, faster and more efficient while providing greater de…

O&M

Utilities are in a tough spot. They didn’t ask for the rise of prosumers and cyber threats, nor the complications that have come with consumer electricity dem…

Emissions

The state’s Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) will procure approximately 800 MW of offshore wind through a solicitation in the fourth quar…

Renewables

The RFP will collect information about wind resources to reduce uncertainty about site conditions….