The growth of solar is helping bring clean power to places not normally associated with abundant sunshine. The pairing of solar with utility scale storage is expanding that reach even further. Last month, purveyors of power...
With the holiday season approaching, this might be a good time to get word out to your customers about the importance of electrical safety, especially as it applies to indoor and outdoor holiday lighting. Here, we look at...
More women are entering the construction industry—in some places more so than others. Construction Coverage ranked U.S. cities based on the share of women in the industry, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, Md...
According to the latest Housing Opportunity Index, produced jointly by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., and Wells Fargo, San Francisco, record-low mortgage rates were not enough to offset...
The transformation of indoor lighting by advances in LED technology has been swift and dramatic in recent years. Now the fixtures are ready to transform the outdoors. According to Guidehouse Insights, Boulder, Colo., demand...
In its “2020-2021 Winter Reliability Assessment,” the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Atlanta, predicts that there will be sufficient resource capacity in place across North America to meet winter...
According to a new survey from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., confidence in the market for new multifamily housing increased in the third quarter of 2020. The Multifamily Market Survey...
The digital and renewable power revolutions are changing energy consumption patterns in many ways. Now, the need for uninterrupted power sources (UPS) is expanding across multiple sectors of the economy, driven in large part...
Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), San Francisco, issued a proposal laying the foundation for the state’s effort to better integrate electric vehicles (EVs) as a grid resource. The proposal,...
The potential applications for smart devices just keep growing. One possible new use for smart devices on heaters, appliances and chargeable devices is preventing power outages within electric grids caused by cascading...
For Maryland to reach its Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2030—which requires 50% of electricity sold by utilities to come from renewable sources, with 14.5% from solar in particular—the state will need to...
According to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colo., the first three months of 2020 saw public electric vehicle (EV) supply equipment grow 7.6%. The report, “Electric Vehicle Charging...
As end-users become smarter about their energy use, their communities are getting smarter, too. The market for smart energy community technology is on the upswing. According to the research firm Guidehouse Insights, entire...
According to a new report by Steve Cicala, an assistant professor and Neubauer faculty fellow at Tufts University, Medford, Mass., while utilities have multiple challenges and unexpected additional expenses as a result of the...
Each year since 2000, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colo., has compiled and reported data on electric utilities that offer “green pricing” programs to their customers. These programs allow homes and...
On Oct. 28, 2020, Hurricane Zeta made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, wreaking havoc on the region’s infrastructure. As the 27th named tropical storm and 11th hurricane in 2020, Zeta is just the latest storm in an...
In the battle over carbon emissions and clean energy, buildings have been pushed to the front lines. A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C., concludes that carbon...
According to a new report from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., sales of newly-built single-family homes fell 3.5% in September to 959,000, based on data from the U.S. Department of Housing...
On Oct. 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Washington, D.C., announced the start of bidding on the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction, which will target up to $16 billion to deploy networks designed...
The national debate over energy and climate change has played out on a number of fronts. Even some of the more mundane matters have come under scrutiny. For example, take the energy efficiency of dishwashers. This month, the...
