Lancaster-based home heating company Rhoads Energy has created an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and will be giving company ownership to each of its 160 employees. 

Hanover-based Burkentine Builders invested in two electric vehicle chargers for its headquarters last year using state and federal incentives.

A new initiative to replace nearly 50% of the state government’s energy usage with solar power was announced by Governor Tom Wolf on Monday and is the largest solar commitment by any government in the U.S. to date.

The Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority awarded $1.7 million in COVID-19 Restart Grants for 11 projects across the state, including two businesses in Lancaster and Dauphin Counties.

Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 reactor closed last year, but Pennsylvania remains the second largest generator of nuclear energy in the country. Only Illinois produces more.

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station’s two remaining reactors will continue operation until 2053-54, following approval of a second extension of its operating license by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Gov. Tom Wolf’s GreenGov Council is inviting businesses and consumers to learn about the state government’s efforts to boost green and sustainable practices at a 1 p.m. meeting Jan. 31, 2020 in the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency at 310 Elmerton Ave. in Harrisburg.

A Harrisburg-based conservative group is working to convince Pennsylvania’s most conservative Republicans to support clean and renewable energy policies.

Conservative legislators must remember their party’s legacy of conservation and the importance of promoting clean energy, former Republican Gov. Tom Ridge told lawmaker during a symposium on clean and renewable energy on Tuesday.

Lebanon County Commissioners approved a program that will allow businesses in the county to apply for as much as 100% financing on loans for clean energy and water efficiency projects through a one-year-old state program.

Employees at TE Connectivity’s Lebanon County manufacturing plant helped lay the foundation for the company’s global initiative to decrease its energy consumption over the last decade.

Efforts to get regulatory approval for new high-voltage electricity transmission lines through properties in southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland could be nearing an end, as public hearings on the controversial project wrap up this month in both states.

The day isn’t quite around the corner when Pennsylvania drivers will be able to find charging stations for their electric vehicles the same way they can find gasoline stations. But it is getting closer.

Exelon Generation is asking the federal nuclear regulators for permission to use funds set aside for shutting down Three Mile Island to build storage facilities for nuclear waste.

Timothy Miller, 55, joined Enola-based Dawood Engineering as director of energy services in June 2018. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field, most recently serving as director of oil and gas Appalachian Basin water management services for a large international engineering consulting firm.