Utility

Kansas State Fair Energy To Be Offset By Wind RECs

Enel Green Power, in partnership with Westar Energy and KCP&L, is retiring renewable energy credits (RECs) equivalent to the amount of electricity expected to...

WEC Energy Group Acquiring Majority Of Thunderhead Wind Energy Center

WEC Energy Group has agreed to acquire an 80% ownership interest in the Thunderhead Wind Energy Center in Nebraska. The project is being developed...

University Of Arizona To Power Campus With Wind, Solar Energy

The University of Arizona (UA) has initiated a 100% clean energy initiative with local utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP). Under a new agreement, TEP will...

Renewables, Nuclear Neck And Neck For Electric Generation In First Half Of 2019

Renewable energy sources - biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind - accounted for more than one-fifth (20.1%) of net domestic electrical generation during the...

Detroit Zoo To Use Michigan-Made Wind Energy

The Detroit Zoological Society (DZS) has announced that the Detroit Zoo will be powered by 100% Michigan-made renewable energy through DTE Energy's MIGreenPower program....

Vistra To Retire Four Coal Plants In Illinois

Irving, Texas-based Vistra Energy and its subsidiaries have announced plans to close four coal-fueled power plants in Illinois. The plants will retire in order...

Avangrid To Sell Wind Energy To CalChoice

Avangrid Renewables has announced three new power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the California Choice Energy Authority (CalChoice). CalChoice will buy the entire output of the...
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NextEra’s Gexa Brings 100% Renewable Energy To Residential Plans

Gexa Energy LP, a retail electricity provider in Texas, plans to transition all of its residential plans to 100% renewable energy with no extra...
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PacifiCorp To Repower 20-Year-Old Wyoming Wind Farm

PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, has acquired sole ownership of the Foote Creek I wind facility, a 41.4 MW project in Carbon...
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Castle Wind Signs MOU For California Offshore PPA

Monterey Bay Community Power (MBCP) and Castle Wind LLC, a joint venture between Trident Winds Inc. and EnBW North America Inc., have signed a...

Wind Playing Big Role In Alliant Energy’s Cleaner Energy Future

Alliant Energy, which serves electric and natural gas customers across Iowa and Wisconsin, has released its corporate sustainability report, highlighting the company's renewable energy...
arizona

Groups Urge Stronger Renewable Energy Laws In Arizona As Utility Seeks More Wind, Solar

As clean energy stakeholders urge Arizona regulators to adopt stronger renewable energy standards, Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) has announced plans to add new...
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Ameren Missouri Cancels Wind Development, Citing ‘Unacceptably High Costs’

Citing steep transmission costs, Ameren Missouri has mutually agreed with EDF Renewables to terminate the development of a wind facility in northwest Missouri. The...
oklahoma

Western Farmers Electric Co-op Signs PPA With NextEra

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with NextEra Energy Resources for a combined wind, solar and energy storage...

Duke Energy Announces 350 MW Frontier Windpower II

Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, has announced plans for the largest wind project in its fleet, the 350 MW...

Portland General Electric Plots More Renewable Energy

Portland General Electric Co. has presented a new integrated resource plan to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) for approval. The new plan focuses...

Continuing Shift To Renewables, AEP Commits To Coal Reductions

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has approved a modified agreement that will accelerate emission reductions from American Electric Power's...

DTE Energy OK’d To Purchase Three Wind Farms

The Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved, in part, DTE Electric Co.’s renewable energy plan, including the purchase of three Michigan wind projects....
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Otter Tail Acquires North Dakota Wind Farm From EDF

Minnesota-based Otter Tail Power Co. has closed on the purchase of certain development assets from EDF Renewables Development Inc. In turn, construction can now commence...

State Regulators OK Georgia Power’s Storage, Renewable Energy Plans

Georgia Power, the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Co., has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) for its 2019 integrated resource...

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