Peter Behr
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5 energy issues to watch in Biden's budget
The budget request offered clues on the administration's plans on everything from pipelines to fusion. → Read More
Can innovation save Biden's push for 100% clean grid?
The blow to the "Build Back Better" plan by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is raising a pivotal question for President Biden's push to decarbonize → Read More
Major U.S. utilities plan coast-to-coast, EV-charging network
More than 50 U.S. power companies have joined forces to build a coast-to-coast, fast-charging network for electric vehicles along major U.S. travel → Read More
ENERGY POLICY: What Biden's 'climate day' means for 100% clean electricity
The Biden administration has dubbed today "climate day" and is prepared to unveil details of the president's strategy for removing carbon emissions from the U.S. electric power generation by 2035, the first step to decarbonizing the nation's economy by midcentury. → Read More
RENEWABLE ENERGY: Transmission hamstrings push for 100% clean electricity
A coalition of grid companies has fired off a new argument on why green energy advocates should embrace strategic, long-haul, high-voltage transmission lines and why the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission needs to make that happen. → Read More
ELECTRICITY: Details emerge about DOE 'super‑grid' renewable study
A coast-to-coast transmission "super-grid" could be built across the United States for $80 billion and deliver economic gains of more than twice that amount, moving surplus renewable energy to major urban centers, according to an Energy Department study that was pulled back by DOE headquarters. → Read More
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Ford's EV experience: 'Time to torque'
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. wants you to feel its next-generation electric vehicle in your eyeballs. → Read More
GRID: How does Texas keep the lights on? It's complicated
The Texas grid has posed a concerning riddle: How does a state with the nation's thinnest margin of backup electricity and the largest installed wind capacity manage to keep power humming in a heat wave? → Read More
ENERGY POLICY: Power lines: The next 'Green New Deal' battlefront?
If the goals of the "Green New Deal" are a political minefield, so, too, are the most likely strategies for reaching its target of very high national levels of renewable energy output. → Read More
ENERGY POLICY: Power lines: The next 'Green New Deal' battlefront?
If the goals of the "Green New Deal" are a political minefield, so, too, are the most likely strategies for reaching its target of very high national levels of renewable energy output. → Read More
SECURITY: Were GE trade secrets hidden in photo headed for China?
On July 5, Xiaoqing Zheng's computer at a General Electric installation in upstate New York became a small but intense battleground in the industrial cyber war between the U.S. and China, federal prosecutors say. → Read More
BUSINESS: GE asks outsider to stem gaping losses in gas turbines
The hammer fell at the battered General Electric Co. for a second time in 14 months yesterday, as an impatient board of directors dismissed GE veteran John Flannery as chairman and chief executive, replacing him with outside board member Lawrence Culp Jr., with a mandate to quickly deal with the slumping GE Power division. → Read More
EXTREME WEATHER: Utilities mobilize for 'catastrophic' damage from Florence
Across the southeastern United States, masses of residents fled the approach of Hurricane Florence yesterday, with officials in a half-dozen states echoing the warning of National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham: "It's a catastrophic event." → Read More
SECURITY: Agencies play tug of war over pipeline protection
Natural gas pipeline companies are being pulled in three different directions as federal agencies mull how to handle new security threats to an increasingly vital resource. → Read More
SHALE@10: Will China's Appalachian gas investments survive trade fight?
An $84 billion investment from a Chinese conglomerate lit up West Virginia's hopes of capitalizing on the wealth of natural gas underlying its borders. Then came President Trump's trade levies on billions in Chinese goods. → Read More
NUCLEAR: Uranium trade fight splits miners and reactor operators
The Commerce Department yesterday opened an investigation into whether imports of uranium to fuel U.S. nuclear reactors — primarily from Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Uzbekistan — threaten national security by undermining U.S. producers. → Read More
WHITE HOUSE: Trump orders DOE to halt coal, nuclear retirements
The White House is considering an Energy Department proposal to buy electricity from unidentified U.S. coal and nuclear power plants to prevent their "premature" retirement. → Read More
STATE OF THE UNION: Trump's trade tilt with China draws closer
President Trump put his confrontational international trade agenda at the top of his goals for 2018, previewing for members of Congress a series of upcoming showdowns expected with China, the nation's North American neighbors and other trading partners. → Read More
HURRICANE MARIA: New 'day one' for Puerto Rico grid repair, 7 weeks after storm
The disaster of Hurricane Maria was twofold: first, a natural disaster. Second, a bungled human response to a humanitarian crisis and the longest blackout in American history. Grid restoration work is finally picking up speed nearly seven weeks after the hurricane's strike. But the faltering response has still not been resolved into a unified campaign to bring power back. → Read More
HURRICANE MARIA: Rivalries threaten to prolong Puerto Rico's blackout
More than a month after Hurricane Maria knocked out Puerto Rico's power, it's unclear who among a half-dozen government bodies has the final word on how and when the territory's electric grid will be rebuilt. → Read More