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The House on Jan. 15 voted 419-2 to pass the Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience (POWER) Act (H.R. 164), which would help communities recover from disasters and make investments to become more resilient in the future.
The Southwest Power Pool’s proposed Markets+ service reached a significant milestone Jan. 16 when it received approval of its tariff by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office on January 16 announced eight conditional commitments through its Title 17 Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment program, comprising $22.92 billion to utilities serving more than 14.78 million customers across 12 states.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS on Jan. 16 released additional guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic content bonus for the clean energy production and investment tax credits.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently published a framework to develop long-term electricity load forecasts that accounts for building and transportation electrification impacts.
After almost two decades of relatively little change, consumption of electricity grew by 2% in the United States during 2024, “and we forecast it will continue growing at that rate in 2025 and 2026,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Jan. 15.
General Motors is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help find the ideal locations for adding EV charging stations across the U.S.
A National Renewable Energy Laboratory study released in January finds that the potential for adding floating solar panels at reservoirs in the U.S. is significant. Reservoirs in the U.S. could host enough floating solar panels to generate up to 1,476 terawatt hours, it said.