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As part of its ongoing efforts to provide its customers with clean energy at competitive rates, San Diego Community Power has approved the use of tax-exempt “green bonds” to lock in clean energy at a discount, it said on Aug. 11.
Conway Corp employees recently came together to support Stuff the Bus, a school supply drive organized by United Way of Central Arkansas (UWCA) to benefit students in local schools, the Arkansas public power utility reported on Aug. 12.
The American Public Power Association recently shared several new energy storage resources and opportunities.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has earned national recognition for sustainability and resilience with a groundbreaking project that replaced a nearly century-old portion of its Colorado River Aqueduct with one of the largest earthquake-resistant pipelines in the world.
B2U Storage Solutions, a provider of large-scale repurposed battery energy storage systems, has started construction on its third grid storage facility and first in the state of Texas.
Joule Capital Partners, Caterpillar Inc. and Wheeler Machinery Co. on Aug. 7 announced an agreement to power Joule’s High Performance Compute Data Center Campus in Utah.
The U.S. District Court in Eugene has granted the Eugene Water and Electric Board's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought under the Endangered Species Act pertaining to fish passage at EWEB’s Trail Bridge Dam.
The public power city of Ames, Iowa, recently received a Silver designation from the national Charging Smart program for achieving policies that facilitate the expansion of electric vehicles and EV charging infrastructure. Ames is the first community in Iowa to earn a Charging Smart designation.