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Tesla Takes Aim at the Grid
Ending several months of speculation, electric vehicle firm Tesla Motors officially moved into the energy storage market on April 30 with the announcement that it would begin marketing two new battery products, the home-based Powerwall and the larger, utility-scale Powerpack.… Read More

Sen. King Introduces Bill to Promote Distributed Energy Interconnection Neutrality
A new bill unveiled on May 6 by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) champions a general right to neutrality of the interconnection of distributed energy resources (DER) and seeks to establish a set of national parameters for how DERs are governed. … Read More

MIT Report: Uniform Nationwide RPS Program Needed
An interdisciplinary study led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative concludes, among other things, that “state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requirements should be replaced by a uniform nationwide program.” The report—released on May 5—focuses on the future… Read More

Legal Challenges to Clean Power Plan Begin to Take Shape
Attorneys general from three states—Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia—stepped forward on May 5 to present their objections to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed Clean Power Plan. During testimony before the Senate Environmental and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air… Read More

DTE Electric to Get NRC Combined License (COL) for Proposed Nuclear Reactor
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will soon issue DTE Electric a combined license (COL) to build and operate an Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) at its existing Fermi 2 site in Michigan. The federal regulator announced on April 30… Read More

California Adopts Ambitious 40% by 2030 GHG Reduction Target
California will seek to reduce its greenhouse gases (GHG) by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, a new executive action by Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. orders. Executive order B-30-15 issued on April 29 comes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference… Read More

Faraday Awards Honor Efforts in Hiring Veterans
Nearly everyone in the power sector has a co-worker or colleague who served in the armed forces, or themselves served in the military. While this has been the case for decades, specific efforts to hire veterans into the generation industry… Read More

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Check out these stories from POWER's May 2015 issue and its sister publications:

Batteries Are Carving Out Space on the Grid

Distributed Power's Rising Importance for U.S. Electrical Infrastructure

New York's Reforming the Energy Vision

Solar Gardens: A Fast-Growing Approach to Photovoltaic Power

The Power Industry's Spring Fever

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