A new report says wind and solar projects in MISO’s and SPP’s generator interconnection queues are being asked to pay the bill when connecting to the grid.

The Illinois House approved Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s massive Energy Transition Act, sending the bill back to the Senate for expected concurrence on Monday.

Illinois lawmakers continue to debate a landmark energy bill aimed at fighting climate change ahead of a Sept. 13 to save the Byron nuclear plant.

Companies committed to 100% clean energy should look beyond the carbon-free power they are procuring, according to a report from the World Resources Institute.

American Clean Power Association will absorb fellow trade group U.S. Energy Storage Association at the beginning of the new year, the groups announced.

Virginia researchers' report on a new computer model shows that the state is on track to zero out its carbon emissions by 2050 and meet targets set by the VCEA.

Duke Energy touted its ongoing “clean energy transformation” through its five-year, $59 billion growth capital plan during the company’s second-quarter earnings call.

The West needs new transmission near term and far more in the long term for California to meets its goal to provide customers with 100% clean energy.

Interconnection queues across the country are bursting with requests from battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid power plants pairing storage with solar or wind. Because of their growing numbers and the differences in their operating characteristics from traditional synchronous generation, NERC issued a reliability guideline in March on the resources’ performance capabilities and how …

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Solar has overtaken wind in the interconnection queues of MISO and SPP as declining PV costs make solar attractive even in wind belt states.