OCEANSIDE — San Diego Gas & Electric is plowing through a roughly $80 million upgrade to a key North County substation that officials say will provide 40,000 customers with a more reliable connection to the interstate power grid following the 2012 shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station...

Glendale Water & Power will be installing a new two megawatt battery energy storage system, or BESS, next to the public power utility's Grandview Substation, Glendale Water & Power said on Nov. 15. A groundbreaking event was scheduled to take place on Nov. 16, the utility said in a news release...

NATCHITOCHES – Beta Engineering of Pineville, Louisiana is completing three years of funding $6,000 for scholarships awarded to Northwestern State University students pursuing degrees in engineering technology. The scholarships are awarded to two students each academic year...

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced today that the new East County (ECO) Substation project has been energized and is now operating as an integral part of SDG&E's electric transmission system. The entire project includes a new 58 acre state-of-the-art substation in the East County community of Jacumba, an upgraded substation in Boulevard and a 14-mile transmission line connecting the two substations...

The western Arizona desert has become a popular location for constructing large solar projects. The sunshine is plentiful and there are large tracts of non-prime farmland available that make building utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants, such as the Agua Caliente Solar Project, attractive...

Agua Caliente Solar farm is a 290MW photovoltaic (PV) power project located in the east Yuma County of Arizona, US. It is owned by NRG Energy and MidAmerican Energy Holdings and is currently the world’s biggest photovoltaic solar power plant...

The second quarter of 2012 was a record quarter for the utility solar market segment with 477 megawatts deployed out of the total 742 megawatts installed in the quarter, according to the most recent U.S. Solar Market Insight. Leading the utility solar pack is the world's largest solar farm -- the Agua Caliente behemoth in Yuma County, Arizona...

A new 117-mile transmission line now winds through a national forest, traverses an arid desert and climbs through the mountains of California from Imperial County to San Diego County. Called the Sunrise Powerlink, the recently energized line is comprised of two 230-kV segments (one overhead and one underground), a 500-kV segment and a new 500-kV/230-kV transmission substation called Suncrest substation...

(San Diego’s East County) – “That snap, crackle and pop is the sound of success,’ SDG&E president and chief financial officer Michael Niggli declared, referring to the noises emanating from high voltage lines at the newly completed Suncrest Substation. Atop a former mountaintop blasted away for the project’s construction, Governor Jerry Brown and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined with energy industry executives to celebrate what they view as a milestone in meeting the state’s ambitious renewable energy goals...

NORTH GLENDALE — City officials gathered Monday to celebrate a $12 million renovation of a electrical substation that utility officials say will increase the system’s reliability. The improved Glorietta substation, which serves roughly 6,000 customers in north Glendale neighborhoods including , has increased capacity that will allow more power to flow through the system, increasing the utility’s ability to meet customer demand, officials said...