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New polling from Data for Progress finds that a strong majority of likely voters nationwide — 68% — support having a publicly owned utility as their local utility provider.
The Lubbock, Texas, City Council and the Lubbock Power & Light Electric Utility Board recently voted to approve a list of retail electric providers that will operate in Lubbock’s competitive electric market
Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD recently announced that its new Sky Valley Substation in Monroe, Wash., is up and running.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation has launched several initiatives aimed at advancing its study that will assess the interregional transfer capacity of the North American transmission grid.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Oct. 30 announced up to a $1.3 billion commitment for three transmission lines crossing six states.
Representatives from the Kansas public power cities of Garden City, Gardner, Lindsborg, Ottawa, and Russell toured the Dogwood power plant in Missouri on September 21.
California has nearly doubled the amount of battery energy storage on its system in two years, hitting 6,000 megawatts of installed capacity, according to the California Energy Commission.
Iowa public power utility Waverly Utilities has entered into an agreement with Sandhills Energy to build a four-megawatt solar generation facility that will produce an estimated five percent of the utility’s electricity.