The California Public Utilities Commission approved proposals to head off capacity shortfalls in summer 2022 and 2023, including increasing demand response.

The Department of Energy's LEAP program will provide technical assistance to help environmental justice, low-income and coalfield communities develop clean energy projects.

Experts say the electric grid needs heartier construction, new technology and microgrids to reduce outages from increasingly common severe weather events.

“Public purpose” microgrids are struggling because of high costs and the lack of a widely accepted resilience metric, speakers told NARUC.

A growing interest in grid flexibility looks beyond demand management to accommodate and balance distributed generation and loads.

Con Edison is staking its future on clean, emissions-free energy, going “all-in” on electric vehicles, energy efficiency and storage, CEO Tim Cawley said.

Stakeholders endorsed PJM’s proposed solution to update the value of capital recovery factors at last week’s MRC meeting.

Three Democratic North Carolina senators introduced SB509, which aims to pour $4 million into community microgrids and other local resilience projects.

North Carolina’s electric cooperatives are outdistancing the state’s investor-owned utilities in microgrid deployment.

Rhode Island is seeking input from municipalities to ensure a plan to fund community microgrids meets their needs.