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This week, Governor Hochul of New York announced the completion of new agreements for two offshore wind projects: Empire Wind 1, a planned 810-megawatt project developed by Equinor, and Sunrise Wind, a planned 924-megawatt project developed by Ørsted and Eversource. These contracts were awarded as part of New York`s fourth offshore wind solicitation. The combined capacity of the two offshore wind projects is more than 1,700 megawatts. These projects will generate sufficient clean energ

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff’s eleventh annual report on demand response and advanced metering is required by section 1252(e)(3) of Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005). Issued in December 2016,  it is based on publicly-available information and discussions with market participants and industry experts. Based on the information reviewed, the report finds that:

• Deployment of advanced meters continues to increase throughout the country, 1 and

WHAT IS PREPAY ENERGY?

Prepay energy is a voluntary bill pay option for consumers to pay ahead for energy consumption in the future. Some consumers appreciate the convenience and flexibility of the option. Others appreciate an alternative to security deposits or payment arrangements. Once consumers begin using prepay energy, they tend to reduce their energy consumption resulting in dollar savings without negatively impacting their lifestyle.

Wind energy has the potential to provide up to 30% of Europe’s power by 2030 according to figures released today by WindEurope in its Outlook to 2020 and Scenarios for 2030 reports.

According to WindEurope’s projections, Europe could be on course for an average installation rate of 12.6 GW per year in the years up to 2020. This would take Eu

On 13 September, in his annual State of the Union address, President Jean-Claude Juncker stated: "I want to make our industry stronger and more competitive. The new Industrial Policy Strategy we are presenting today will help our industries stay or become the world leader in innovation, digitisation and decarbonisation."

The renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy brings together al

World energy consumption is projected to increase by 28% by 2040, according to the International Energy Outlook 2017 (IEO2017), released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Most of the world`s growth in energy demand is projected to take place in countries outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). China and the other non-OECD Asia nations alone account for more than 60% of the projected i

This paper discusses how the existing 1.2 billion poor people worldwide without access to electricity can be environment-friendly electrified with the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) on energy and the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the experience of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in rural electrification with renewable energy-based microgrids or mini-grids, and identify challenges and business opportu

Editor`s Note: The following is a news release authored by Julie Chao and issued by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 5, 2017

To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by 2030. While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be

Transitioning to a fully renewable electricity system is possible for South America by 2030. A study by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. also shows that a 100 percent renewable system (100% RE) is the cheapest electricity production option and can be achieved with very little energy storage.

"South America has a unique renewable energy resource base since one of the best wind sites globally is in Patagonia, the best solar en

Rrecent white paper from Navigant Research provides a far-reaching view of the connectivity needs of electric utilities, exploring approaches and technologies, with case studies of projects designed to develop an Energy Superhighway.

Over the last decade, with the advent of smart grid technology, utilities have been prompted to invest in a wide array of networking technologies