by PNCECE | Mar 15, 2020 | Clean Energy News, Trending Topics
The TransAlta coal plant in Centralia will fully close down by 2025, as part of an agreement that will see $55 million invested to help the community prepare for the transition. The Centralia agreement is an example of an unusually well-funded, long-planned...
by PNCECE | Feb 12, 2020 | Clean Energy News
Consolidated Edison and National Grid are experimenting with energy storage in New York. ConEd is in the middle of several major projects to advance the state’s distributed grid, while working to add 300 MW of energy storage by 2023. Storage is essential to New...
by PNCECE | Feb 11, 2020 | Clean Energy News
A U.S. private equity firm, Hull Street Energy, has sealed a deal to buy a 255-MW portfolio of 31 hydroelectric facilities from a joint venture between Enel Green Power North America and GE Energy Financial Services. Read more: Enel, GE JV sells 255-MW US hydro...
by PNCECE | Jan 22, 2020 | Clean Energy News
Hydroelectricity is a form of renewable energy. That means its source — water — is naturally renewing and doesn’t get used up in the process of generating power. Other renewable energy sources include solar power, wind power, biomass, and increasingly, geothermal...
by PNCECE | Jan 21, 2020 | Clean Energy News
Two U.S. wind farms with a total capacity of 119 MW, operated by TransAlta Corp., became operational in December 2019. The 90-MW Big Level wind park in Pennsylvania started commercial operation on December 19. It sells power to technology giant Microsoft Corporation,...
