TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Feb. 15 -- The Florida Public Service Commission issued the following order granting intervention (Docket No. 20240013-EG; Order No. PSC-2024-0037-PCO-EG) on Feb. 13, 2024: * * * In re: Commission review of numeric conservation goals (Duke Energy Florida, LLC). ORDER GRANTING INTERVENTION On January 5, 2024, Docket Nos. 20240012-EG, 20240013-EG, 20240015-EG, 20240016-EG, 20240016-EG, and 20240017-EG were established to review and adopt the corresponding utility's conse  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 15 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today appealed the North Carolina Utilities Commission's decision to grant a rate increase to Duke Energy Carolinas. "Every dollar matters for North Carolina families," said Attorney General Josh Stein. "Yet, Duke Energy's rate increase is too high. So, I'm asking the Court to side with North Carolina's ratepayers and to reject this rate  more

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, Feb. 14 -- RTI International issued the following news release: * * * The first-of-its-kind project is a collaboration among RTI, International Paper, SLB and Amazon * * * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) announced up to $304 million in funding for four projects to pilot transformational technologies designed to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) in Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas and Wyoming. Nonprofit research i  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The Sierra Club issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2024, by Director of Climate Policy Patrick Drupp: * * * At a U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing today, congressional Republicans continued repeating disproven claims about the impact of the Biden administration's efforts to address air pollution from dirty fossil fuel power plants, wrongly alleging the common sense policies will threaten grid reliability. A recent analysis of 2022's Winter Storm   more