Researchers and innovators are developing new strategies for addressing data center demand and other new loads on the US electricity grid while minimizing infrastructure investments, and avoiding new fossil energy power plants.
New direct line ratings technology enables existing transmission lines to deliver more energy — including clean energy — when and where it’s needed.
The beleaguered Texas power grid could get some much-needed help from the proposed Southern Spirit transmission line, except for a monkey wrench thrown into the works by state legislators in Louisiana.
The Green Loan Principles are behind a massive $11 billion financing package for the huge new SunZia wind power and transmission project.
The massive new SunZia wind energy transmission line is closing in on the finish line, ESG or not.
Western grid operators have been making plans for large-scale renewable energy imports into the California electricity market, prompting the governor’s Senior Advisor for Renewable Energy Facilities to write a “self-reliance” response. Here are a few highlights of his letter to the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC): California has plenty of … [continued]
What if the U.S. could get 20 percent of its power from solar, near transmission lines, and without covering virgin desert?
Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven Laboratory are all abuzz over a new bit of evidence that could help the U.S. save a good chunk of the energy that is currently lost through power transmission lines. The DOE estimates that the nation’s antiquated transmission and distribution systems … [continued]
