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July 3, 2014
Green Mountain Energy is promoting its solar leasing option by marketing a 30% savings off the cost of the lease, in addition to an electricity bill credit.
May 16, 2014
Green Mountain Energy has expanded the offering of its SolarSPARC 100 product, a plan sourced from 100% solar power and which directs a portion of customer payments to build new solar generation not sited at the customer's premises, to New York and Pennsylvania.
April 23, 2014
Oasis Energy has begun offering natural gas plans bundled with 100% carbon offsets in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
April 17, 2014
The interpretation of a June 2013 Connecticut statute could triple the cost for retail suppliers to meet Connecticut's Class III RPS.
March 31, 2014
NRG Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries including NRG Yield, Inc. and NRG Solar, now owns and operates more than 1,200 megawatts (MW) of solar capacity, the company said Friday.
March 31, 2014
Transferring the RPS obligation from retail and Basic Generation Service suppliers to distribution utilities, or implementing long-term solar contracts through the BGS auctions, are two policy options included in a draft New Jersey report concerning volatility in the New Jersey solar market, and…
March 24, 2014
Waste Management, Inc., Ventech Engineers International LLC, NRG Energy, Inc., and Velocys plc announced the formation of a joint venture to produce renewable fuels and chemicals from biogas and natural gas using smaller-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology.
February 5, 2014
NRG Energy has announced an agreement with Virgin Limited Edition to develop a renewables-driven micro-grid for Necker Island.
January 27, 2014
FERC has administratively doubled capacity prices to be paid by retail suppliers, and their customers, in ISO New England, with Commissioner Philip Moeller brazenly trying to sell customers on the "reliability benefits" of the rate shock -- at a time when 75% of ISO-NE's gas-fired generation was…
January 24, 2014
Washington Gas Energy Services has launched a carbon offset product for Pennsylvania natural gas customers, which was developed in partnership with the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) and Sterling Planet
January 8, 2014
Clean Power Finance (CPF) and Integrys Energy Services, Inc. announced the creation of a residential solar finance fund through the CPF Market, an online platform that facilitates electric power companies' investment in residential solar.
December 18, 2013
NRG Residential Solar Solutions is offering residential customers a solar leasing package that includes two years of free electricity from its affiliated retail electricity provider, for usage not met by the solar panels.
November 21, 2013
Retail supplier Abest Power & Gas has begun offering wind power to customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
October 22, 2013
NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, formally launched the offering of the NRG Solar Canopy, a freestanding solar power generation structure
October 7, 2013
Massachusetts state energy officials will travel to Canada this week to tour large hydro facilities, "furthering Massachusetts' efforts at expanding large hydro imports."
September 26, 2013
Duke Energy Renewables announced that it will build two large-scale wind power facilities in South Texas.
September 26, 2013
Green Mountain Energy has launched a new program in Texas that provides customers with 100% solar power, and directs a portion of customer payments to build new solar generation not sited at the customer's premises.
September 23, 2013
Viridian Energy is teaming with Solar City to provide distributed solar installations to its customers.
September 18, 2013
Google has agreed to purchase the entire output of the 240 MW Happy Hereford wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas
September 10, 2013
Direct Energy and SolarCity have undertaken a broad agreement to provide solar electricity directly to businesses.
August 29, 2013
Retail supplier AEP Energy has begun offering 100% renewable products to residential electric customers in Ohio that include an affinity donation to Green Energy Ohio.
July 31, 2013
Retail supplier Plymouth Rock Energy announced that it is offering a home roof solar system to Long Island, New York residents with no money down.
June 24, 2013
eBay Inc. applied for Market-Based Rate authority at FERC. The impetus of the petition is eBay's development of a 6 MW fuel cell generation facility in Utah, with the primary purpose of providing power to an eBay data center at that site. eBay was not explicit, however, in stating that its MBR…
June 18, 2013
Five New England states have announced a regional initiative to import low-cost, large-scale hydro power from Canada to, among other reasons, bring "cheaper power options" to customers.
May 23, 2013
Washington Gas Energy Services has been selected by Groundswell to supply the non-profit with 100% wind power for Groundswell's latest round of its Community Power Project and Community Power Programs for Homes aggregations.
