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Missouri River Energy Services on Sept. 2 marked the beginning of hydropower generation at the Red Rock Hydroelectric Project in Iowa with a video dedication ceremony.
Paul Lau has been named to succeed Arlen Orchard as the CEO and general manager of California public power utility SMUD. Lau currently serves as chief grid strategy and operations officer at SMUD and has been a member of the SMUD executive team for more than 12 years.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 31 issued a final rule to reconsider parts of the agency’s 2015 Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) rule.
When Concord Municipal Light Plant received notice that its financial and accounting software would no longer be supported, it turned out to be a good thing.
Energy New England (ENE) has launched a unique new turnkey toolkit that provides utilities with operational guidance to easily stand up their own electric vehicle program.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) on Aug. 26 announced the start of construction on a large-scale, 20-megawatt (MW) energy battery storage project in Northern New York, one of the largest such projects in the nation.
The Tennessee Valley Authority began allowing the local utilities it serves to generate up to 5% of energy from distributed resources, and public power utilities weigh in on what this new flexibility means for their customers.
A total of 121 U.S. coal-fired power plants were repurposed to burn other types of fuels between 2011 and 2019, the Energy Information Administration reported.