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Utility industry news and analysis for energy professionals.

Utility industry news and analysis for energy professionals.

Utility industry news and analysis for energy professionals.

Dive Brief: The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners approved an exemption from the Clean Truck Fund Rate "for the cleanest" natural-gas-powered trucks, according to an announcement Monday. The rate, which has been set at $10 per 20-foot equivalent unit for any non-zero-emissions truck at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles, has not yet been implemented. This new exemption applies to trucks picking up or dropping off loaded containers at the Port of Long Beach that use natural gas engines that meet the 0.02 grams of nitrogen oxides per brake horsepower-hour standard, accord...

Dive Brief: Energy service providers offering off-balance sheet efficiency products have seen rapid growth in the number of deals signed each year, panelists said Wednesday at the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings summit. Financing companies associated with DOE's Better Buildings program have "collectively reported about a 2.5x increase in the amount of deals [done annually] since they joined the program," said Joe Indvik, head of clean energy finance and carbon solutions at RE Tech Advisors.  A 2017 market report by Navigant (now Guidehouse) estimated Energy Efficiency as a S...