Energy
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Pa. Ranks Among States That Could Most Benefit from Easy-Breezy Energy Source
Pennsylvania has great wind energy potential, but it is currently using only a fraction of what it could. A new Stacker report illustrated the gap. Stacker ranked states based on their untapped wind energy potentials using data from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Washington D.C. The ranking was determined by comparing…
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IKEA Adopts Stance on Charging That Has Nothing to Do with Credit Cards
To help reach the IKEA ambition to become a circular- and climate-positive business by 2030, the Conshohocken company is bringing ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet electric vehicle (EV) charging to over 25 IKEA retail locations throughout the U.S. The initiative is being undertaken with Electrify America, a Reston, Va., provider of charging stations.…
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Conshohocken’s IKEA U.S. Joins Forces with SunPower to Offer Home Solar Solutions in the United States
IKEA U.S. and SunPower Corp. a leading residential solar technology and energy services provider, has announced that they are teaming up to make solar energy easier to access. Through this collaboration, members of the IKEA Family customer loyalty program will be able to purchase home solar solutions, available through SunPower, to generate and store their…
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Don’t Get Scared at 2pm Today in Montgomery County if You Hear Sirens
The Montgomery County Department of Public Safety has announced that today, at 2:00 PM, Constellation (formerly Exelon Generation) will conduct its semi-annual, full-volume test of the emergency warning sirens surrounding Limerick Generating Station. This is one of two semi-annual tests performed each year. There is no emergency or cause for concern, the department says. The…
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AAA: When Projecting Summer Vacation Costs, Montco Residents Are Going to Need a Bump to the Gas Budget
Montgomery County is heading toward a 2022 Memorial Day Weekend that is absent overt COVID worries in a long time. That reality brings upbeat thoughts of impromptu zips to the Shore or the Poconos, family reunions, graduation parties, and other reasons to travel. But yet another spoiler — gas prices — is set to impede…
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Norristown-based PJM Pauses Around 1,200 Mostly Solar Power Projects for Two Years
Norristown-based PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, has hit the pause button on around 1,200 projects, mostly solar power, for two years, writes James Bruggers for the Inside Climate News. The company has greenlit a new process for adding power plants to the transmission system that it manages that includes a two-year hold…
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Hay, What a Good Idea! Quakertown Inventor Harvests Abundant Savings on Heating Oil Costs
A Quakertown mechanical engineer has reconfigured a biomass boiler — a natural-burning, hot-water producer for home heating — to run on hay fed to it automatically. Tom Venesky harvested this story in Lancaster Farming. Michael Kramer wanted to get the high cost of home heating oil off his back. His ah-ha moment came from a…
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Pottstown Scientist Becomes Lab Director with Goals to Bring Down Carbon Emissions
Jhansi Kandasamy, a scientist who grew up in Pottstown, is the recently appointed Idaho National Laboratory’s net-zero director with goals of achieving net-zero carbon emissions at the lab, writes staff for Idaho Falls Magazine. Kandasamy, whose family settled in Pottstown when she was 8 from India, was inspired by her late father to become a nuclear engineer.…
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Norristown-based PJM Interconnection Overwhelmed by Solar Project Request, Proposes Two-year Delay on New Approvals
Norristown-based PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest electric grid operator, is being overwhelmed with requests from energy developers who are asking to connect to its regional transmission network and is looking to put a two-year delay on reviewing over 1,200 energy projects, the majority of which are solar power, writes James Bruggers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.…
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Limerick Generating Station Now Part of Exelon Spinoff Constellation Energy
Exelon completed its separation into two companies earlier this week, and the newly formed Constellation Energy is now the owner of Limerick Generating Station in Montgomery County, writes Andrew Maykuth for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Exelon announced previously it would be spinning off its generation and marketing business that owns the largest fleet of nuclear power…
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See How Pennsylvania Ranks Among Most and Least Energy-Expensive States
Pennsylvania is one of the least energy-expensive states in the nation, according to a new report recently released by WalletHub. To determine which states are most and least energy-expensive, WalletHub compared the monthly energy bills in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The personal-finance website used a special formula that accounted…
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Valley Forge-based PJM Studying Crisis in Texas to Prevent It Happening Here
Valley Forge-based PJM, the nation’s largest power grid that serves 65 million people, has been studying what went wrong in Texas to ensure the same thing does not happen here, writes Dann Cuellar for the 6abc. The main difference between the Texas grid and PJM is that the latter is connected with other grids throughout…
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Put a Little Sunshine on Your Business – Invest in Solar Energy
Say you’ve been considering solar panels for your business. Maybe a neighbor has been talking it up, or you are growing concerned about climate change and want to do something about it. This is a great time to make it happen while grants and tax credits make new solar projects cheaper than ever, writes Managing…
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Coronavirus Pandemic Complicates Refueling Outage at Limerick Nuclear Generating Station
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated things for the current refueling outage at Limerick Nuclear Generating Station, writes James Conca for the Forbes. There have so far been five cases of COVID-19 among the plant’s more than 2,000 employees and contractors. Additionally, four employees or contractors have been quarantined as of April 8. Workers at nuclear…
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MONTCO Careers – Tozour Energy Systems
Located in King of Prussia, Tozour Energy Systems has become the region’s leading distributor and service provider of high-performance building systems from Trane, as well as other manufacturers, and a full array of SMART energy and building performance services. Credit and Collections Specialist This position organizes and conducts all credit and collection activities, including collection calls, credit…
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North Penn School District Turns To Propane To Reduce Financial Costs, Help Climate
North Penn School District has switched to propane-powered buses to help reduce transportation-related costs while simultaneously helping protect the environment, writes Dana Bate for the Whyy. The unexpected bonus of the change was the lack of the usual noise generated by a gas-powered engine. “Our drivers don’t even need their intercom systems anymore because it’s…
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What are those yellow grids on Montco’s telephone poles?
Show of hands. How many of you have been driving down the road and noticed those yellow grids attached telephone poles at just about windshield height? And once you spotted one you started looking around for more? So that’s just about everyone. Thanks. The grids are affixed to poles within 15 feet of a street,…
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Montco 100% Clean Energy Conference provides green options
Judging from the crowd that packed the downstairs of From the Boot Italian restaurant in Ambler, Montgomery County municipalities are more than ready to move forward with renewable energy alternatives. Representatives of 19 Montgomery County municipalities attended the Montco 100% Clean Energy Conference on Saturday to share ideas about how the 10 governing bodies that…
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