Power Systems Engineering Research Center

Selected News from PSERC

Updated September 12

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Industry

• DOE Awards $8.5M to EV Deployment Projects. Greenfleet. Sep 11.
• What It Takes to Power Google: The Web giant reveals its energy use for the first time.technology review. MIT. Sep. 9.
• OpenEI Utility Rate Database grows. Open Energy Info. (see also DOE Publishes Nationwide Utility Rates, EnergyBoom Policy. Sep. 9.)
• NERC News. August.
• U.S. Solar Stat of the Week: 2010 Installed Capacity. greentechmedia. (see also State of the Week: California. Details on how, and why, California’s state market for PV grew. greentechmedia. Sep. 7.)
• Envisioning the Future of Electric Vehicles. greentechmedia. Sep. 7.
• Shocker: Power demand from US homes is falling. Despite the proliferation of electronic gadgets, US homeowners are using less power. AP via Yahoo! Finance. Sep. 7.
• EIA Lowers Short-term Electricity Consumption Forecast. Short-Term Energy Outlook. US Energy Information Administration. Sep. 7.
• Arizona State University Tops 10 Megawatts of Solar-Energy Generating Capacity, Outpacing All Other U.S. Higher Education Institutions. energybiz. Sep. 6.
• Electric cars will not be cheaper than conventional models until 2030: report. theguardian. Sep. 6.
• How Much U.S. Shale Gas Is There, Really? Technology review published by MIT. August 31.

Smart Grid

• Illinois Companies Poised to Add Thousands of Jobs to Help Build Illinois' Smart Grid. energybiz. Sep. 8.
• Empowering Consumers and Promoting Innovation through the Smart Grid. Hearing by the Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space and the Technology. Sep. 8. (News Release)

Government

• The American Energy Initiative: Impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s New and Proposed Power Sector Regulations on Electric Reliability. Hearing to be held on September 14 (witness list | background memo). House Energy & Commerce Committee.
• FERC Proposal for Delegation of DOE Authority.Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability. US DOE. Sep. 9. (See also Transmission Siting Narrative and Transmission Siting Narrative Outline from FERC. Industry Hears Details of New FERC Energy Strategy. New York Times. Sep. 7.)

Workforce and Education

• Presidential Support for CEWD's Troops to Energy Jobs Initiative. Center for Energy Workforce Development.
• Dark times ahead for solar power: Government supports at an end, putting industry, jobs in peril. post-gazette.com. Sep. 5.
• MentorNet Opens its Doors to Students from All Campuses. MentorNet.
• Tapping Top Young Talent: How to Attract the Best and the Brightest of the Millennial Generation. Energy Pulse. Sep. 1.
• PES Scholarship Plus Initiative: Addressing a Critical Workforce Shortfall. IEEE PES.

Climate Change

• EPA starts tracking greenhouse gases this month. The Tampa Bay Online. September 8.

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