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New rules from the Environmental Protection Agency could accelerate the retirement of existing coal-fired generating facilities and limit new baseload natural gas facilities, hampering the public power sector's ability to meet growing electricity demand, Fitch Rating said recently.
Electricity utilities are increasingly reporting that they are using energy storage batteries to move electricity from periods of low prices to periods of high prices, a strategy known as arbitrage, according to new information published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Florida public power utility Kissimmee Utility Authority has launched a new online energy assessment tool to assist customers with managing their energy bill.
A new substation is now operational in Hurricane City, Utah, a public power community.
Susan Lynch, Director, Database Systems & Analysis at the American Public Power Association and the longest serving employee in APPA’s history, will retire on July 1, 2024.
Utilities can create and send personalized emergency messages through Message Broadcast’s communications platform, Enterprise Omnichannel Notification System. The platform can increase the speed of communication by over 80% and help utilities keep customers informed and safe during emergencies.
A ribbon-cutting event took place on June 18 in Tunica County, Mississippi, to mark the completion of the first utility-scale wind generation facility in the state, the Delta Wind project.
Washington State’s Chelan PUD avoided several outages over the last few months since it finished upgrading more than 50,000 electric meters with advanced metering infrastructure, PUD staff reported to PUD commissioners.