This archive collects stories about utilities — the electric, water, gas, and public service providers that keep communities running. Coverage spans clean energy transitions, infrastructure upgrades, affordability efforts, and service expansions that signal meaningful progress in how essential resources reach people.
The move will see Kenya’s installed generation capacity doubling to 6,000 MW and strongly contribute to the county’s target of generating electricity from 100% renewables by 2030.
Kenya Power intends to substantially reduce its footprint by phasing out gas-powered vehicles and replacing them withelectric vehicles in the “near future.”
The coal-fired Loy Yang A power station near Melbourne – responsible for more than three percent of the country’s emissions – will shut down in 2035, a decade earlier than planned.
Built on Western Europe’s biggest artificial lake, the shiny floating island of 12,000 solar panels is part of Portugal’s plan to cut reliance on imported fossil fuels.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) approved a petition filed by Atlantic City Electric Co. (ACE) to cease coal-fired generation at the two plants sometime around June 2022.
Scotland has marked the end of its coal-powered history by demolishing the huge chimney at its last remaining coal plant at Longannet in Fife.
Kenya’s electric utility company, Kenya Power, which is currently the only electricity off-taker in the country that has the mandate of procuring, distributing, and retailing electricity across the country, is piloting electric motorcycles.
The fear of running out of battery power is a barrier to many customers who might purchase an EV. This new coalition helps address that concern.
Net metering is one of the best ways of catalyzing the rapid uptake of distributed renewable energy generation.
Scotland’s gas SGN company will outfit some 300 homes in Fife with free hydrogen boilers, heaters, and cooking appliances. The effort is the largest attempt so far to test whether carbon-free hydrogen can help the U.K. meet its carbon goals.
