For the majority of Pennsylvanians, electric competition has been a success. With the average electricity rate down from 15 percent to 12 percent above the national average, electricity is getting cheaper while almost everything else from groceries to gas is rising in price. On the other hand, industrial customers have not fared so well. While [...]

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) regional transmission organization (RTO) serves nine states. They are responsible for ensuring the lights stay on for about 15 million people, but new regulations may put some of their customers in the dark. SPP, like every RTO, is facing a wide array of new EPA regulations. In a July letter [...]

A Federal court in Dallas, TX is playing host to a lawsuit against US Virgin Islands-based power company Glacial Energy, which claims the company has secretly funneled $20 million of revenue from electricity customers into ‘blood diamond’ mining operations in Africa. Glacial Energy is a retail electric provider, offering commercial electricity services in states where [...]

Carbon is not only the most common element and the basis for all matter that we know, it’s also the root of harmful pollution and environmental woes.  In the spirit of ‘fighting fire with fire’, an aspiring research team from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory has mapped out a method by which to turn CO2 from [...]

Harvesting the ocean’s power for electricity isn’t a new concept, but a new tide-tapping ship is making waves at the forefront of the renewable energy industry. A European R&D organization called Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI) is the brains behind the new vessel, dubbed simply the “Wave Crawler”. The goal of the project is [...]