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The city of High Point, North Carolina, has begun using an app to track burned out streetlights
The board of Alexandria, Minnesota-based public power utility ALP Utilities recently affirmed that there would be no electric rate increase in 2022.
Black River Falls Municipal Utilities (BRFMU) finished up 2021 by giving back to the local community, the Black River Falls, Wisconsin-based public power utility recently reported.
California public power utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is the first utility to receive J.D. Power’s new Certified Sustainability Leader designation.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has been awarded a $102,000 grant through the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program to evaluate and report on innovative approaches to integrating dual-land use for agriculture and solar energy production.
The City of Valley Center, Kansas, recently took the next step towards possible municipalization of its electric utility through the issuance of a solicitation for a municipalization feasibility study.
CPS Energy, the public power utility serving San Antonio, Texas, has signed a deal with Quidnet Energy for a pumped energy storage project that could eventually be as large as 15 megawatts (MW).
D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments and California’s Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) on March 7 announced the signing of SMUD's first combined solar and battery energy storage system renewable power purchase agreement sized at 200 megawatts/400 megawatt hours.