US Congress Introduces US Storage Investment Tax Credit Bill A new bill has been introduced in the US Senate and House of Representatives that could boost energy storage markets. The US Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act is a bill which focuses on tax credits for both residential and business systems. Martin Heinrich, a … Continue reading US Congress Introduces US Storage Investment Tax Credit Bill
Economics of Batteries for Stabilizing and Storage on Distribution Grids In the future, there will be much less consumption of energy from fossil fuels, and increasing annual percentages of PV solar energy on distribution grids. Those percentages may become as high as 50%. Any rational planning and design of energy systems, and the systems of … Continue reading Economics of Batteries for Stabilizing and Storage on Distribution Grids
Obama threatens to veto energy spending bill The Obama administration on Thursday came out strongly against an energy spending bill in the Senate, arguing that it favors the Energy Department’s bomb-making over its clean energy programs. The energy and water spending bill, however, failed to clear a key procedural vote, 49-47, with Democrats prevailing in … Continue reading #Obama threatens to veto energy spending bill
As utilities back bigger fixed fees, consumer groups bite back As utilities lobby state regulators to include mandatory fixed fees on their customers’ monthly bills, consumer advocates and environmental groups are pushing back. A mandatory fixed fee, which is also called a surcharge or a cost tracker, is an additional fee imposed on a customer’s … Continue reading As utilities back bigger fixed fees, consumer groups bite back
Obama’s solar energy socialism President Barack Obama recently made headlines in Nevada by promoting the “progress” his administration has made in promoting solar power and fighting climate change. Most media outlets conveniently forgot to mention one crucial fact: Without government mandates, subsidies, and sweetheart deals, the sun would quickly set on Obama’s solar empire. The … Continue reading #Obama ’s solar energy socialism
The United States Desperately Needs A National Energy Policy There are two fundamental ‘things’ needed to sustain human life, water and energy. Water is the more precious of the two as reflected in the Arab saying “Water is life.” Without water life as we know it would not exist, and there are no substitutes for … Continue reading The United States Desperately Needs A National Energy Policy
Consensus Near on PJM Energy Market Offer Cap? The authors of four competing proposals to change the $1,000/MWh energy market offer cap have agreed to put forward one plan for consideration by the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday — the last chance stakeholders will have to come to consensus before the Board of … Continue reading Consensus Near on PJM Energy Market Offer Cap?
Michigan debates energy deregulation LANSING — Some of Michigan’s biggest companies and school districts are fighting bills that would alter rules that govern competition in a partially deregulated electricity market. The debate, fueled by a high-stakes lobbying fight between two major utilities and their competitors, is intensifying this fall and is among a number of … Continue reading #Michigan debates energy #deregulation
If An Energy Bill Drops In The Senate But Everyone Knows It Won’t Pass, Does It Make A Sound? This week, Senate Democrats unveiled an energy bill that would attempt to move America to a low-carbon future. But if the bill has zero chance of being passed in a chamber controlled by Republicans, does it … Continue reading If An #Energy_Bill Drops In The #Senate But Everyone Knows It Won’t Pass, Does It Make A Sound?
Obama’s incomplete Arctic energy approach As President Obama tours Alaska this week, cries of hypocrisy fill the air. He is using these three days to highlight the effects of climate change and continue his call for action. Meanwhile, off the state’s northwest coast in the Arctic Chukchi Sea, Shell continues its exploration of offshore oil … Continue reading #Obama’s incomplete #Arctic_energy approach
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