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Washington D.C. will run on 100% renewable energy by 2032

With the mayor’s signing of the Clean Energy D.C. Omnibus Act of 2018, Washington, D.C., has officially committed to transition to 100% renewable electricity by 2032. Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the historic legislation, bolstering her Clean Energy DC plan, ...

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How Electricity Storage Will Change The Future of The Energy Industry

The electricity industry is seeing changes occur, both at faster rates than ever before and in new and innovative ways. When looking at the US electric infrastructure, energy storage is becoming increasingly in demand. Simultaneously, there has been a major ...

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NYPD confirms it was a Con Edison transformer, not aliens, that lit up the New York sky and caused multiple blackouts

Some New Yorkers may have gotten a bit of a scare Thursday evening when they looked up and saw a bright blue light in the sky. The strange light caused speculation from Ghost Busters to extraterrestrials. Some took to Twitter to ...

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Starbucks Signs Agreement with Constellation to Power More Than 340 Stores with Wind Energy

Starbucks signed a long-term agreement with energy provider Constellation to power more than 340 Illinois stores from Enel Green Power North America, Inc.’s HillTopper wind project. Constellation has a separate deal with Enel to purchase 14 megawatts of energy from ...

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PG&E Seeks Huge Electricity and Gas Rate Increases After Wildfires

PG&E, even before it seeks potential rate hikes linked to wildfire liabilities and lawsuits, on Thursday asked state regulators for large increases in monthly electricity and gas bills, according to new official filings by the embattled utility behemoth. Customers who ...

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Video Games Could be Racking Up Your Electricity Bill

Many Americans love to play video games but very few ever consider how it might impact their electricity bill. Games are becoming increasingly more intensive and interactive which means it requires more electricity to run them. In 2015, a research paper that ...

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How Big of a Burden is Your Electricity Bill? Comparing How Affordable Electricity is Around the Country

These days, most of our monthly bills are predetermined flat rates we can budget for. Loans, mortgages, cable, internet, and more all are pretty predictable flat rates. However, one bill that can be hard to predict is your electricity bill each ...

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PG&E Faces Possible $30 Billion in Damages if Found Responsible for California Wild Fires

California utility PG&E revealed in an SEC filing Wednesday that a pre-dawn outage on the Caribou-Palermo 115 kilovolt transmission line in Butte County on November 8 may have sparked the Camp Fire, which has since killed at least 56, destroyed more than ...

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PPL Increases Electricity Rates for Small Businesses

PPL Electric Utilities announced on Friday that they will be increasing their electricity rates for small businesses. The Pennsylvania electricity provider posted updated energy prices Friday for those consumers who do not shop for their electricity supply. Effective Dec. 1, the ...

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Here are the Risks of Using Intermittent Energy Sources

What does intermittent energy source mean? Intermittent power sources cease and start up again, turning on and off, while traditional constant power sources continuously function. Renewable energies, those that can be replaced on the same timescale as they are depleted, ...

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