Energy and Utilities

Enviva signs MOU with first U.S. customer

Biofuel maker Enviva has signed a memorandum of understanding with a customer to make petroleum substitute for aviation fuel.

Lightsource bp closes on $100 million financing for Alabama solar project

Lightsource bp has closed on a $100 million financing package for its 130-megawatt Black Bear Solar energy project in Montgomery County. Lightsource bp has secured...

TVA issues $500M in bonds to fund green energy projects

The Tennessee Valley Authority, power supplier to most of Northern Alabama, has issued $500 million in bonds to support capital investment in renewable energy,...
Exterior of Protective Life headquarters

Protective Life headquarters will feature renewable energy

Protective Life’s Birmingham headquarters will be powered with 100% renewable energy. The project at Protective Life, which will involve 1,500 workers in a 620,000-square-foot building,...

Rural broadband to be expanded in Fayette County

Alabama Power has teamed with Tombigbee Communications, a subsidiary of Tombigbee Electric Cooperative, to expand rural broadband and high-speed fiber internet in Fayette County....

UA Professor urges caution, not panic, in wake of pipeline shutdown

Even as a handful of Alabama gas stations run out of gas in the wake of a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline, University...

SPOC Automation launches new company

SPOC Automation, of Trussville, has launched a new company, SPOC Grid Inverter Technologies Inc., and named Andrew Williams its managing director. SPOC has deployed 70,000...

Georgia-Pacific’s Brewton mill wins energy award

Georgia-Pacific’s containerboard mill at Brewton has earned kudos from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for voluntarily cutting energy consumption. The 2020 Energy Star Challenge Achieve...

Atlas Welding Supply Becomes Partner in Meritus Gas Partners

Atlas Welding Supply Co. Inc. has partnered with Gas Innovations and AEA Investors to form Meritus Gas Partners, a packaged gas distribution platform. Founded in...

U.S. Steel Opens Electric Arc Furnace in Fairfield

Long-time Birmingham industrial icon U.S. Steel Corp. officially opened its first-ever electric arc furnace in Fairfield today, bringing advanced technology to “the Valley.” The...

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