An agricultural hub of about 8,000 in the northeast corner of Iowa seems an unlikely choice for a state-of-the-art battery storage project, but the Department of Energy thinks it could become a template for other American towns. The DOE is chipping in $250,000 on a $2.5 million, 2.5-MW battery storage...

Imperial Approves Hoover Dam Contract Imperial Irrigation District last week approved an agreement to secure an additional 3 MW of renewable energy from the Hoover Dam, bringing the reallocation total up to 10 MW for the next 50 years. IID will pay an all-in rate of $27 to $29/MWh, compared with...

Riverside County Looks to Create Power Supplier Riverside County officials are advancing a plan to create an alternative retail electricity supplier that would supplant Southern California Edison in unincorporated areas of the county. The officials say that the community choice aggregator, which would purchase power directly from producers, would allow...