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A new report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provides an overview of battery energy storage systems from a land use perspective and describes the implications for zoning and project permitting.
Natural gas will continue to play a key role in maintaining U.S. power system reliability for the foreseeable future, said Scott Corwin, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association, on Nov. 21.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners President Julie Fedorchak recently announced the establishment of a new 15-month initiative to better harmonize the gas and electric industries to improve the reliability of both systems.
The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments program recently approved $236,000 in grants and scholarships. The action took place at DEED’s Fall 2023 meeting with DEED Directors signing off on funding three grants and ten scholarships. Scholarship funding
The City of Fountain, Colo., a public power community, recently provided an update on the city’s Green Power Initiative, which includes a 1.7-megawatt solar array.
Country Acres Clean Power LLC has entered into certain agreements in connection with a new solar and energy storage project under development located in Placer County, California. The agreements include a busbar power purchase agreement with California public power utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
The Department of Energy on Nov. 16 published a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment to amend its implementing procedures governing compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act that would impact certain transmission, solar and energy storage projects.
On the evening of October 24, the city of Osawatomie, Kansas, began experiencing troubles at a power plant substation. It was subsequently determined that the substation transformer was damaged and a replacement was needed.