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At its April 24, 2025, meeting, the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency Board of Directors voted to approve three additional contracts from current member municipalities seeking to continue their beneficial relationship with IMEA through 2055.
Thanks to rapid clean energy deployment, expansion of battery storage, and strategic efforts to build up emergency reserves, California heads into summer with more resources to meet electricity demand, including the extreme heat conditions experienced in recent years, but California energy leaders are remaining vigilant about ongoing risks.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s State Energy Office has selected seven projects to receive more than $20 million to improve North Carolina’s electric grid. The selected projects will update grid infrastructure to increase load capacity and resilience against severe weather,
The Electric Power Research Institute on April 29 announced the new leadership and members of its Board of Directors.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on April 30 held a hearing on 14 bills related to grid reliability.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the release of an additional $401.5 million in Fiscal Year 2025 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding.
The Florida Municipal Electric Association applauds the Florida Legislature for passing Senate Bill 1386/House Bill 857, “which installs further protections for utility workers by reclassifying and strengthening criminal penalties for those who knowingly commit assault or battery against a utility worker,” said Amy Zubaly, Executive Director, Florida Municipal Electric Association, on April 30.
Convergent Energy and Power on May 1 said it has broken ground on a 3-MW/9-MWh utility-scale battery storage system for Massachusetts’s municipally-owned utility company West Boylston Municipal Light Plant (WBMLP).