The Philadelphia Energy Authority (PEA) manages green energy projects for the City and raises the money to make investments that will save electricity in the long run. The PEA is celebrating its first 10 years and looking forward to the next energy wins. Katie Bartolotta, the PEA’s vice president of policy and strategic partnerships, spoke
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The 30% federal tax credit for going solar ended for homeowners in 2025, but it never ended for businesses. That’s the opening behind the Solar States Pre-Paid Lease. Here’s the idea. A qualified business owns the system long enough to claim the credit homeowners no longer can — and passes those savings into your price.
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Along the wide and scenic Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Microsoft is reviving the nuclear power plant Three Mile Island. Infamous for the 1979 partial meltdown of one of its two reactors, it has been idle since 2019. But last year, Microsoft announced a deal with plant owner Constellation Energy to bring the nuclear facility’s remaining
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Plenty of our clients zero out their electric bill with solar. The real challenge is mastering PECO’s time-of-use plan, which requires shifting when you use power and when you sell power. If you do it right, you don’t avoid paying a bill — you earn money. I pulled up our family’s energy bill and let
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If you’ve been following energy news across the region, or even just looking at your electric bill each month, you know that rates are up. Again. Last year, PECO asked regulators for permission to charge you more while it reported $814 million in profit. Not revenue. Profit. Here’s what that means in practical terms for
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On Tuesday, April 14, the Philadelphia Gas Commission — the government body that oversees the City-owned Philadelphia Gas Works — did something highly unusual. It voted to table a vote on PGW’s 2027 capital budget, basically postponing a routine step until a later date. “I was very surprised that the Commission did not make a
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Tucked into a still corner of Grays Ferry, a block-spanning brick building with towering stacks overlooks the river and its walking trail. Thick steel pipes snake around the compound, carrying water and gas to tanks and boilers. The air thrums with the sound of machinery hard at work turning water into steam. This is the
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In 2022, a pipe failed at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Freeport, Texas, causing an explosion and fire. The conflagration took place entirely within the facility, built on a barrier island along the Gulf of Mexico. The nearest residential area sits more than a mile away from the plant, adding a buffer
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In 2008, I heard Van Jones speak at the Academy of Natural Sciences about his book “The Green Collar Economy.” He talked about the need to make careers in clean energy accessible to all of our communities, and that without intentional inclusion, the underserved neighborhoods in our region would be sidelined from these opportunities, too.
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When York Energy Storage LLC proposed in 2023 to turn the small valley of Cuff’s Run in York County, on the western bank of the Susquehanna River, into an energy storage reservoir, William McMahon, the engineer and energy entrepreneur behind the plan, billed it as a solution to the limitations of renewable energy. As is
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