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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Santee Cooper team members are making preparations for the anticipated effects Hurricane Milton may have on Santee Cooper’s service territory, it said on Oct. 8.
Electricity Markets
The PJM Interconnection is exploring a way to identify and process resources that can support reliability in the near term as it transitions to a reformed interconnection process and clears its new service requests, it said on Oct. 8.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Public power utility crews from across the U.S. have deployed to Florida in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, which is projected to make landfall in central Florida Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Electricity Markets
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently released a study that examines the value of adding batteries to wind and solar plants located in areas that face transmission congestion.
Distributed Energy Resources
Ameresco recently announced the completion of Utah’s first floating solar array, developed in partnership with the Mountain Regional Water Special Service District.
Distributed Energy Resources
Over the past several months, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been working with Guam Power Authority, a public power utility, to gather data on Guam’s current power system and better understand GPA’s goals for renewable energy development, in addition to talking with key stakeholders to understand their perspectives and concerns.
Electricity Markets
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, recently voiced concerns about policies encouraging the development of data centers in Maryland.
Environment
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 4 issued an order denying six requests to stay the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s final National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and Technology Review rule.