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In a recent interview with APPA, Casey Crabtree, Director of Economic Development at Heartland Energy, provides details on Heartland Energy's Demand Adjusted Technology Advantage, or DATA, an interruptible data center rate policy customers can use to facilitate construction and operation of data
The Imperial Irrigation District will expand a major substation in the City of La Quinta, Calif., increasing electrical service to about 4,000 more customers there and in adjoining areas.
Carol Martucci, Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Technology at the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company, has been appointed to the Northeast Power Coordinating Council Board of Directors.
Participation in the 2025 GridEx -- the largest cyber and physical grid security exercise in North America -- increased by 48 percent from the last exercise in 2023 with more than 370 organizations simultaneously exercising their emergency preparedness plans and protocols.
The House Natural Resources Committee on Nov. 20 passed H.R. 4776, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act, by a vote of 25-18.
The American Public Power Association on Nov. 17 submitted a letter to the House Energy & Commerce Committee opposing H.R. 278, the BROADBAND Leadership Act, introduced by Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA).
On October 20, Washington State’s Mason County PUD 3 and partners from multiple agencies across Mason County, Washington State, gathered at the Belfair substation to celebrate completion of upgrades in the substation and the construction of a new switching station.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued an emergency order that directs the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), in coordination with Consumers Energy, to ensure that the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan remains available for operation.