A recent BVLOS lidar operation for a regional electric utility showcases how long-range corridor inspections can be highly cost-effective.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced economic development awards to five Western New York-based firms that will spur nearly $135 million in capital investments. The awards, approved by the New York Power ...

KORE Power no longer intends to build its previously-planned gigafactory in Buckeye, Arizona. Image art by Paul Gerke. Source material courtesy KORE Power. KORE Power is bailing on its plans for a ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via Gemini. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) met this morning to modernize the process of connecting to the U.S. power grid, which is increasingly imperiled by ...

Hurricane Sandy and subsequent hurricanes that hit the United States often leave many electric utility executives, their customers, local and state government leaders and regulators contemplating ...

Enverus, an energy-dedicated SaaS company, released its 2025 Interconnection Queue Outlook, a collection of power generation and transmission projects that show requests to connect to the U.S. power ...

The $3.2 billion North Plains Connector transmission project has received Minnkota Power Cooperative as the eighth member of its utility consortium. Minnkota, a not-for-profit electric generation and ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT-4o. It’s another great day to own an electricity-generating facility in PJM Interconnection. It’s another rough one for most ratepayers. PJM has announced the ...

Thanks to the proliferation of power-sucking data centers, the onshoring of more and more manufacturing, and an ongoing global electrification trend, the United States needs to wring every drop out of ...

Collaboration was an earmark of the relicensing of Avista Utilities’ 742-MW Clark Fork Project. Nine years later, there’s much to learn from this approach. By bringing together stakeholders and using ...

In the U.S., the utility-scale sector has the greatest share of the U.S. solar market, with reports indicating that 70% of all new solar capacity added in 2023 was at the utility-scale level. Not only ...

Access to power has become the key driver of AI and data center growth, prompting the need for new solutions among utilities, developers, and other stakeholders. This demand growth will test grid ...