Renewables

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast. In this episode, NGI senior editor Chris Lenton talks to NGI senior analysts Shaylon Stolk and Josten Mavez about the renewable energy landscape and how natural gas fits into the mix. The war in Ukraine has completely upended the global energy…

Black Hills Energy is pursuing a voluntary renewable natural gas (RNG) and carbon offset pilot program for its residential and business customers, said parent company Black Hills Corp.  The Rapid City, SD-based utility filed a proposal with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a program that would offer customers the opportunity to offset 100%…

A partnership between Wärtsilä Corp., WEC Energy Group Inc., the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) and construction company Burns & McDonnell has been tapped to carry out hydrogen fuel testing at the A.J. Mihm natural gas-fired generating station near L’Anse, MI. “As we bring more renewable energy online, we must ensure that we can…

Archaea Energy Inc. spent the first three months of the year adding renewable natural gas (RNG) assets and projects to boost its production nine-fold within the next six to eight years. The Houston-based RNG producer, which is majority owned by Rice Investment Group, is still relatively fresh from its merger with Aria Energy LLC last…

The Biden administration and FERC made moves in recent weeks to revamp the nation’s electricity transmission system, taking steps toward achieving a carbon-free energy grid by 2035 while addressing the impending infrastructure issues. During the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s third joint federal-state electric transmission task force, the five commissioners underscored that there is a great…

The California Independent Systems Operator (CAISO) saw 97.6% of electricity supplied to its grid come from carbon-free sources for a brief moment in early April, the second time this year the operator broke its record for energy generated from renewable resources.  During the late afternoon on April 3, CAISO recorded the peak, which surpassed the…

Daily wind-powered electricity eclipsed both coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation for the first time in March, though wind still pales in comparison to natural gas, the U.S. Energy Information (EIA) Administration said. The agency said in a report Thursday that wind turbines in the Lower 48 produced 2,017 GWh of electricity on March 29, making…

The Biden administration has announced another offshore wind energy auction for more than 110,000 acres off the coast of the Carolinas, adding on to a pledge to bring 30 GW of offshore wind power online by 2030.  The proposed lease sale is scheduled for May 11 for two areas in the Carolina Long Bay area…

Commercial-scale artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solar technology is coming to Mojave, CA, following an agreement between Heliogen Inc., a renewable energy and AI solutions company, and Woodside Energy Inc. The project’s announcement follows Woodside’s limited notice to proceed granted to Heliogen for its 5 MW manufacturing facility in Long Beach, CA. The facility is expected to…