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January 15, 2022 - Noah Elbers grew up a few miles down the road from where his worldrenowned bakery and eatery, Orchard Hill Breadworks, sits today in Alstead, NH. Recently, with help from Murphy International Development, he secured a $31,245 grant from USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to build a 32.5kW solar array where his grandparents had lived since 1972 ... [ more ]

December 14, 2020 - Duke, Dominion and Southern say the 15-minute trading platform could boost clean power and lower costs. Renewables advocates want deeper changes to Southeast energy markets. The U.S. Southeast's biggest utilities have filed plans for a Southeast Energy Exchange Market, an electricity trading platform that they say could reduce power prices for about 50 million people and better integrate the region's growing share of clean power in years to come ... [ more ]

December 10, 2020 - greentechmedia.com - Proposed regulations have an uphill battle to speed PG&E's switch from mobile diesel to cleaner, more cost-effective alternatives by 2021. California faces tough cost, reliability and technology choices when it comes to microgrid options for fire-prevention blackouts. California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state's increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them ... [ more ]

December 9, 2020 - New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today that the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund), valued at an estimated $226 billion, has adopted a goal to transition its portfolio to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. This process will include completion within four years of a review of investments in energy sector companies, using minimum standards to assess transition readiness and climate-related investment risk, with, where consistent with fiduciary duty, divestment of companies that fail to meet minimum standards ... [ more ]

November 2, 2020 - Representatives from across the world will participate in the 19th and 20th Council of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) amid a backdrop of renewed calls from the Agency to build the post-Covid economic recovery around the energy transformation ... [ more ]

October 30, 2020 -  New York State unveiled the first fast-charging hub for electric vehicles (EV) in Jefferson County. The Direct Current Fast Charger (DCFC) hub at the Hilton Garden Inn in Watertown is the second set of 150 kW units completed as part of a statewide EVolve NY charging network being installed along key travel corridors and in urban areas to encourage travelers to drive EVs ... [ more ]

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Murphy International performed contract project and report called Caribbean Hotel Energy Efficiency Action Programme (CHENACT AP), created for the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA), and the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) to propel the Caribbean hotel sector towards energy efficiency, has won Best Energy Efficiency Project for 2018 at the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) in Miami ... [ more ]