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Xcel Energy Announces Milestone Clean Energy Plans In Colorado

Xcel Energy-Colorado has announced major clean energy plans, including investing billions of dollars in wind, solar and battery storage, as well as retiring one-third of...
renewables

With Focus On Wind, Minnesota Co-op Shoots For 50% Renewables

Great River Energy, a nonprofit electric cooperative in Minnesota, has announced a company goal to supply its member-owner cooperatives with 50% renewable energy by...
electric transmission

Arkansas Co-op Signs Long-Term PPA For Southern Power’s Wildhorse Wind

Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. (AECC) of Little Rock has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with Wildhorse Wind Energy LLC, owned by Southern...

Sale Of Two Dot Wind Farm In Montana Now Complete

NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the clean energy subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, has completed the sale of its 9.7 MW wind farm in...
wind

Alliant Energy Plans 150 MW Wind Farm For Wisconsin Customers

Alliant Energy’s Wisconsin energy company has filed plans with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to build a wind project that the company...
wind

New Wind XII Project Would Put MidAmerican Energy At 100% Renewables

Upon completion of its newest proposed wind project, Wind XII, MidAmerican Energy Co. says it will be the first investor-owned electric utility in the country...
wind

Wind Is Leading The Way On Xcel Energy’s Aggressive Emissions Reductions

Having already cut carbon emissions by 35%, Xcel Energy says it is on track to reach or exceed its ambitious goal of reducing carbon...
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Westar And Great Plains Energy Get Green Light To Join Forces As Evergy Inc.

Midwest utilities Great Plains Energy Inc., which serves customers as KCP&L, and Westar Energy Inc. have received final regulatory approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission...
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Wind And Solar See Big Jumps In This Year’s PJM Capacity Auction

PJM Interconnection has released the results of its annual capacity auction, which successfully procured diverse and competitive power supplies for the 65 million people...
wind turbine

Ameren Missouri Plans State’s Largest Wind Farm

Ameren Missouri has entered into an agreement to acquire, after construction, a 400 MW wind farm in northeast Missouri. The facility will be built by...
michigan

Michigan Utilities Establish New Clean Energy Goal

Michigan utilities DTE Energy and Consumers Energy have reached an agreement with Clean Energy, Healthy Michigan to bring more clean energy to Michigan residents. According to...
new england

State Clean Energy Laws Make New England Grid More Resilient

The New England power grid is growing more resilient and reliable thanks to state renewable energy and energy efficiency laws that are reducing the...
coal

Report Debunks Illinois Coal Claims, Makes The Case For Wind And Solar

A new report is challenging Dynegy-Vistra’s claim that shuttering Illinois coal plants would lead to disastrous power outages. According to findings from the Natural Resources Defense Council...
agreement

EDP Renewables Secures Pair Of Illinois Wind PPAs

EDP Renewables North America LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of EDP Renewables SA, has secured two power purchase agreements (PPAs) to sell the energy produced...
deal

Innergex Secures PPA For Foard City Wind Project In Texas

Quebec-based Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. has signed a 12-year wind power purchase agreement (PPA) with an affiliate of Luminant, a Texas-based power company. Luminant will...
grid

Report: States Taking Actions On Grid Modernization At ‘Astounding Rate’

The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC), part of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, has released its Q1 2018 edition of...
renewables fossil fuels

Duke Energy Grew Renewables Capacity 20 Percent In 2017

Duke Energy's renewable energy capacity grew by almost 20% in 2017, according to the company's newly released sustainability report. One of the company's sustainability goals...
green power

Xcel Energy Moves Forward On Texas, New Mexico Wind Expansion

New large wind energy facilities that are expected to return significant savings to Xcel Energy’s Texas and New Mexico customers over 30 years have...
michigan

Clean Energy Groups Denounce DTE Energy Gas Plant Approval

Clean energy groups are denouncing today's decision by the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to approve Detroit-based DTE Energy’s nearly billion-dollar natural gas plant proposal...
wind

Regulators OK AEP Ohio’s Plan To Expand Wind, Solar

AEP Ohio, an American Electric Power (AEP) company, has received approval of its Electric Security Plan (ESP) from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio...

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