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Distributed Energy Resources
American Municipal Power (AMP), Heartland Consumers Power District and Lakeland Electric are winners of the American Public Power Association Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program’s 2020 Energy Innovator Award. Each year the DEED program, which nurtures innovation in
Reliability
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) last week granted conditional approval of wildfire mitigation plans submitted by utilities in the state.
Electric Vehicles
There were 3,323 electric vehicles sold in the seven-county Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan region from April 2017 to February 2020, breaking the target of 3,200 vehicles sold that was set by the Smart Columbus Electrification Program.
Reliability
The City of New Bern, N.C., has completed a $1.4 million transformer replacement project.
Reliability
The New York Power Authority has resumed work on certain projects that were suspended so that the Authority could focus on the continued safe operation of its power plants and transmission system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Generation
The Platte River Power Authority on June 16 said that its coal-fired Rawhide Unit 1 generating resource will cease producing electricity by 2030, 16 years before its planned retirement date.
Distributed Energy Resources
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should dismiss a petition asking it to find that it has jurisdiction over energy sales from rooftop solar facilities and other distributed generation located on the customer side of the retail meter whenever the output of these resources exceeds the customer
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Leaders of public power utilities across the U.S. recently detailed how their utilities were prepared to successfully respond and adapt to a myriad of challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.