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The Lower Colorado River Authority Board of Directors recently approved a business plan of about $577 million and authorized capital investments of about $1.32 billion for energy, water, and public service projects in fiscal year 2025.
After a yearlong implementation effort, 10 new members including public power utilities successfully joined operations of the Northwest Power Pool Reserve Sharing Group on May 1.
Arizona public power utility Salt River Project and Arizona State University have developed a new approach for estimating the water benefits of forest thinning treatments by creating a model that is being recognized as a leading-edge method for analyzing forest thinning’s impacts on water, SRP said
Florida public power utility JEA has hired Jody Brooks as chief administrative officer to lead oversight of the utility’s critical infrastructure protection and compliance, audit services, corporate records retention, and other areas.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently introduced 60 new electric buses that will operate in routes in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn.
Nebraska public power utility Omaha Public Power District is on solid financial footing, according to a report that was recently shared with its board of directors.
The American Public Gas Association presented Texas public power utility CPS Energy with the APGA System Operational Achievement Recognition for excellence in operating its natural gas utility.
Avangrid has acquired a state-of-the-art mobile transformer that can be quickly deployed “and enables the company to resolve outages in the event of a damaged transformer in a couple months compared to the two-year lead time for a replacement transformer,” it said on May 21.