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Clean Links (13 Stories)
Solar News 1. Fort Hood and Universal Services Fort Hood Inc. have turned on a solar field of nearly 3,000 photovoltaic solar panels. “The four-acre solar field, near Liberty Village community,...
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Antelope Valley’s “Solar Ranch One” Gets Financing
The massive solar farm slated to be built in Antelope Valley, Solar Ranch One, just received its first Antelope Valley’s “Solar Ranch One” Gets Financing was originally published on CleanTechnica. To...
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Overwhelming, Bi-Partisan Senate Finance Committee Majority Votes to Extend...
The wind power tax credit extensions have been passed in bi-partisan fashion by a 19-5 vote as part of broader tax cut extension bill. Greeted with guarded optimism by US wind power market and industry...
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Wind Power Lowers Electricity Prices, And How
Editor’s note: We’ve covered the some of the topics below several times (check out our World Wind Power page for a bit more on this), but given how much misinformation there is out there about wind...
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Note to Exelon: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
By Courtney Lane of PennFuture Energy Center (reposted by request) Exelon has changed its tune on the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind energy and has begun to lobby against its extension....
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Texas Wind Power Transmission Set To Skyrocket As Energy Exec Hints At End Of...
A $7 billion project that will send wind power from remote areas in West Texas to Dallas, Houston and other big cities is on the verge of completion, and that could pound yet another nail into the...
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Army Steamrolls $7 Billion In Renewable Energy Projects, Sequester Or No...
The U.S. Army has just launched the first in a series of renewable energy contracts that will eventually total $7 billion by the end of this year, using power purchase agreements along with a standard...
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Rebuttals To Exelon’s Anti-PTC Campaign
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Peter Kelley Last month, AWEA released a report that comprehensively rebuts claims made by Exelon, the largest merchant owner of nuclear power plants in the...
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Exelon’s Massachusetts Flip-Flop
The state that made political flip-flops famous has just claimed another victim. But this time the guilty party isn’t a Presidential candidate. It’s one of the largest energy behemoths in the country....
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US Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules Against Wind-Farm Owner Exelon In...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled against the Chicago-based energy producer Exelon in its dispute with Southwestern Public Service Company over pricing for power provided by the...
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Chicago 2030: Green Or Ashen?
Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in...
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Don’t Take The Bait: Exelon’s Feeding Frenzy Won’t Stop With Pepco
Exelon, a monopoly electric utility and the nation’s largest nuclear power generator, made a $6.8 billion offer to purchase Pepco, Washington D.C.’s electric utility, in April of 2014. Since then, they...
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$6.8 Billion DC Utility Merger Faces Rejection From Office Of The People’s...
In a significant setback for a proposed new utility, the DC Office of the People’s Counsel rejected all Exelon and Pepco proposals on Friday for their planned $6.8 billion utility merger. In a press...
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The Anbaric Microgrid Strategy
Along with boosting the overall reliability of electricity distribution, smart microgrid deployment from companies like Anbaric is today proving to be an important smart step in offering solutions for...
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The Pepco-Exelon Merger Battle: 5 Lessons Learned
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Rachel Gold One of the biggest news stories in energy last week came from the “51st state,” where regulators finally approved Exelon and Pepco’s $6.8 billion...
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Illinois Power Plant Closings Reveal Worldwide Nuclear Issues
The many-sided battle over nuclear power continues with a clear break over politics in Illinois. The company and the government are dancing around the issues currently, with the industry essentially...
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Don’t Take The Bait: Exelon’s Ambitions Go Beyond DC’s Power — Episode 28 Of...
Originally published on ilsr.org. In April 2014, Exelon, the nation’s largest nuclear power generator, made a $6.8 billion offer for Washington, DC–based Pepco. Exelon — which already owns Illinois...
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Democratic National Convention 2016 Has Clean Air, Free Electric Bus Rides...
Proterra, SEPTA, and PECO are promoting democracy-supportive transportation at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Philadelphia has always been a relatively pedestrian- and transit-friendly city....
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Constellation Acquires Retail Electricity & Natural Gas Business From...
Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, has announced an agreement with ConEdison Solutions, a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, to acquire its retail electricity and natural gas business,...
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Demand Charges Dropped From Illinois Energy Bill
Originally published on SolarWakeup. By Yann Brandt Senate Bill 2814, introduced during the regular session, came back during the latest special session with a new amendment, House Amendment 2. This...
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Nation's Largest Utility Leaves US Chamber of Commerce — Because of Climate...
John Rowe, Exelon CEO, said yesterday that climate change legislation is an urgent issue. At the same time, he announced that the nation’s largest utility would not be renewing its membership with the...
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Who Wants a Climate & Energy Bill? 83 Leading US Companies
Business leaders from a diverse range of sectors and interests have called on Obama and Congress to make clean energy legislation a reality this year. Together, they have written a letter to Obama and...
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Massachusetts Earned $50 Million from Cap+Trade in 2009
In a time when most states are hurting, Massachusetts has come out a winner, actually earning money to provide clean energy jobs and energy retrofit services. Through its participation in RGGI, the...
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Chicago's New Distributed Solar Energy Pilot Project
[social_buttons] Creating a revolution in the way energy is produced and shared, distributed solar energy is one of the top clean energy topics of the day. Chicago utility company ComEd (an arm of the...
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New Solar, Wind, Wave, EV, & LED Projects (10 Stories)
I go through dozens of sources and thousands of articles so you don’t have to 😀 Here’s some cool clean energy, EV, and LED project news from the past week or so: 1. 3 New Wind Projects in U.S. Order...
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Buffett’s Mid-American Buys First Solar’s 550 MW Topaz Solar Power Project
First Solar continues to shed ownership stakes in its thin-film solar PV mega-projects as tough economic and industry conditions prompt a more defensive posture. Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway...
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Utility Company CEOs Say Coal Regulations Good for U.S.
For all those who have been or might be confused by nonsense pushed by fossil fuel industry reps, politicians, and a handful of utility companies regarding EPA regulations of coal power plants, here’s...
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Exelon Opposes Trump Mercury Rule Rollback
Exelon, one of America's largest electric utilities, is opposed to the Trump maladministration's plan to roll back the EPA rule that limits how much mercury coal generating stations can introduce into...
View ArticleWhy Plan For Fleet Electrification In The Middle Of A Pandemic?
Fleet electrification could spread like wildfire when one Fortune 100 utility company commits to an electric vehicle future.
View ArticleNYC Beer Distributor Spikes CNG Fleet With Volvo Electric Trucks
The New York company Manhattan Beer Distributors will put five Volvo electric trucks to the acid test in New York City traffic, with an assist from AMPLY power.
View ArticleTwo Nuclear Power Plants in Northern Illinois Reversed Plans to Retire Early
Exelon, the owner-operator of Illinois’s six nuclear power plants, recently announced that the Byron and Dresden nuclear plants will continue operating rather than retire this fall as previously...
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Fleet Owners Just Want More EV Charging Stations, Not The Moon
Fleet owners that represent more than 2.5 million vehicles on the road and claim more than $1.1 trillion in annual revenue figure they should have some say in the matter of building out the national EV...
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Monster Clean Hydrogen Hub Rising In Northeast US
Six northeast US states have combined forces to fight for a share of the Energy Department's $8 billion funding pot for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs.
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