Terry Jones

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Mario Ariza |Terry Jones

PRESS RELEASE: American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP), and its competitive transmission affiliate Transource Energy, LLC1 (Transource Energy) will invest approximately $1.7 billion in transmission system upgrades to improve reliability and increase power availability in states throughout the PJM footprint including Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. The companies’ proposals were selected by the PJM Board to address forecasted conditions that would create reliability concerns.

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Mario Ariza |Terry Jones

24th February 2025 – Press releaseNational Grid plc (“National Grid”) today announces that it has agreed to sell its National Grid Renewables US onshore renewables business to Brookfield Asset Management and its institutional partners including Brookfield Renewable Partners.This transaction is another important step in delivering National Grid’s previously communicated strategy to focus on networks and streamline our business, as announced in May 2024.

1 month ago | latitudemedia.com | Mario Ariza |Terry Jones

PRESS RELEASE: Last Energy, a micro-nuclear technology developer, announced today plans to build 30 microreactors in Haskell County, Texas to serve American data center customers across the state. The company, which has obtained site control, will build its microreactors on a 200 acre site and provide power to offtakers via a mix of private wire and grid transmission.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mario Ariza |Terry Jones

Workers install solar panels on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility in Gaithersburg, Md. Funding that had been frozen for Solar for All, a federally funded program to provide rooftop and community solar to low-income residents, has now resumed, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said. (Photo courtesy of NIST)This story was originally published by Floodlight.

1 month ago | climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard |Terry Jones

Until recently, the U.S. and the rest of the developed world pursued a costly global policy of “net-zero” carbon emissions to battle the supposed ill-effect of climate change. [emphasis, links added]But President Donald Trump has changed all that by ending the U.S.’ commitment to the global net-zero effort. Will today’s highly partisan voters support Trump? The latest I&I/TIPP Poll data suggest a high degree of skepticism among many voters over global warming’s threat.