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Nov. 5, 2026
| This week’s renewable energy news and insights for utility leaders
“We believe that we can, in fact, protect the planet” while serving growing demand, CEO Bob Frenzel said. The spending plan includes 9.2 GW of renewables and 2.3 GW of storage.
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The share of solar projects co-located with storage is projected to pass 30% over the next two years, based on planned additions, according to a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Arizona Public Service expects peak demand will grow about 3.4% annually over the next 15 years, driven by industry and data centers, the utility said in an integrated resource plan filed Friday with regulators.
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3 generation technologies were tested across 2,200 scenarios, discover the technology that outperformed aeroderivative and steam turbine technologies in
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Stakeholders applauded the order’s intent to secure the grid but said restrictions based on geography, rather than function and capability, miss the point and threaten investment.
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The Energy Department’s Battery Manufacturing Accelerator aims to plug gaps in domestic material and component supplies over the next few years as U.S. battery demand looks set to quadruple.
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Opinion
The key question for regulators is no longer whether utilities can simply find a reason to install another gas turbine, write experts from Environmental Defense Fund and Minnesota’s CURE.
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Chairman, President and CEO Bob Blue said during a third-quarter earnings call that the company “benefited from better-than-budgeted sales, better-than-normal weather” and “strong overall financial and operational execution.”
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