Search

SEARCH

The IDEA Website has a wealth of news and educational content available for free on our website, most easy to access by performing a simple search.

Type in the search box below. To search for an exact phrase match, you need to place quotation marks around the search term. For example "Net Zero Carbon Target", will bring results where those four words occur in that exact order.

Categories

   User Content (67)

Refine by

Content Type  

 
 

Community  

 

Non-Community Library  

 

Author  

 
 

Has Attachment  

 
 

File Types  

 

Formal Tags  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Comments  

 

Created  

Within One Week
Within Two Weeks
Within One Month
Within Six Months
Within One Year (2)
Older (65)
1 to 10 of 67
Sort by

Blog Entry
How Does Your State Make Electricity?

New York Times Summary America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. Now the future of the nation’s energy mix has become a major election issue. Overall, fossil fuels still dominate electricity generation in the United States. But the shift from coal to gas and...

District Energy's profile image
District Energy
Added 10-28-2020
View Forum
 
Sector Electric Utility Content Type News Country United States

Blog Entry
“Deflect, Delay, Defer”: Decade of Pacific Gas & Electric Wildfire Safety Pushback Preceded Disasters

Katie Worth, Karen Pinchin, Lucie Sullivan Summary After sparking a series of deadly fires in Northern California and then shutting off power to millions of people in an attempt to avoid sparking more, Pacific Gas & Electric has started on an ambitious slate of upgrades that it says...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 08-24-2020
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Content Type MRCNews

Blog Entry
PJM MOPR Compliance Plan Allays Renewable Sector Concerns of Being Shut Out of Capacity Auctions

Summary PJM Interconnection on Wednesday issued a compliance filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that largely satisfied some of the biggest critics of the regulatory body's controversial Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) order. FERC's December order attempted to effectively...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 03-19-2020
View Forum
 
Topics Capacity Markets Sector Electric Utility Content Type MRCNews Organization PJM

Blog Entry
PG&E Rate Case Compromise Cuts $1.1B Proposal to $575M for Wildfire Mitigation

Kavya Balaraman, Utility Dive Summary Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) reached a proposed settlement with ratepayer advocates, safety officials and other stakeholders that would increase its 2020 revenue by 6.8%, largely to fund wildfire mitigation measures. The proposal is $483...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 01-06-2020
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Content Type MRCNews Topics Policy and Regulation

Blog Entry
Will PG&E's Blackouts Catalyze California's Microgrid Market

Julian Spector, Green Tech Media Summary Bankrupt California utility Pacific Gas & Electric has come under fire on many fronts for the scope and execution of its self-imposed blackouts last month. The blackouts will continue as the company pursues a decade-long grid-hardening...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 11-12-2019
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Topics Microgrids Resiliency Content Type MRCNews

Blog Entry
Microgrids Are Coming, Say Local Energy Watchdogs

Anne Ward Ernst, Index-Tribune Summary The region’s recent round of PG&E-forced power outages caused long lines at gas stations, demand for bags of ice and generators, and spurred more conversation around the concept of electrical microgrids. The microgrid concept is broad and can be...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 11-11-2019
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Topics Microgrids Resiliency Content Type MRCNews

Blog Entry
More Power Outages in California? No Big Deal for Fremont Fire Department

Peter Maloney, Microgrid Knowledge Summary Utilities in California are pre-emptively turning off transmission lines that could spark wildfires, but residents of Fremont can sleep a little more soundly knowing that the city’s microgrids will be there. About two years ago, Fremont installed...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 10-29-2019
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Topics Microgrids Resiliency Content Type MRCNews

Blog Entry
Wildfires and Blackouts Mean Californians Need Solar Panels and Microgrids

David Roberts Soure: Vox Summary California’s electricity system is failing. Earlier this month, in order to prevent wildfires, some 2 million people had their power cut by the state’s biggest utility provider, PG&E. It was the biggest deliberate blackout in history. That...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 10-29-2019
View Forum
 
State or Province California Topics Distributed Energy ... Sector Electric Utility Content Type MRCNews

Blog Entry
PG&E CEO Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade

Katherine Blunt, The Wall Street Journal Summary PG&E Corp. PCG +3.61% ’s chief executive said Friday that it could take as long as 10 years for the company to improve its electric system enough to significantly diminish the need to pull the plug on customers to...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 10-21-2019
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Topics Microgrids Content Type MRCNews

Blog Entry
San Jose Without PG&E? Mayor Wants to Explore City-Owned Utilities

Maggie Angst, Bay Area News Group Summary One week after California’s biggest utility cut power to hundreds of thousands of residents , Mayor Sam Liccardo says he wants to explore a San Jose without Pacific Gas and Electric. Last week’s blackout aimed at reducing the risk of wildfires...

Microgrid Resources Coalition's profile image
Microgrid Resources Coalition
Added 10-18-2019
View Forum
 
State or Province California Sector Electric Utility Topics Microgrids Policy and Regulation Resiliency Content Type MRCNews City San Jose