Get the News in Your Inbox
Wake up to breaking news that impacts you. Get our e-newsletter Public Power Current — published every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday — with exclusive news and features on federal policy, regional and state initiatives, and case studies from public power utilities across the country. All employees and board members of American Public Power Association member organizations can sign up.
Recently in Public Power Current
The following is a transcript of the July 15, 2024, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA's News
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Connected Communities initiative is funding up to $2 million for six pilot projects that provide STEM education and workforce development training, increase connectedness, lower energy costs, deliver environmental benefits and increase community resiliency.
The Guam Power Authority was awarded nearly $916,885 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Underserved and Indigenous Community Microgrids Grant.
Nebraska public power utility Omaha Public Power District on July 11 held a ribbon cutting for its first utility-scale solar project, the Platteview Solar facility in Yutan, Neb. The 81-megawatt facility began generating electricity May 1, 2024. OPPD held a local community gathering with the
Westrafo recently announced plans to open a transformer production facility in Trotwood, Ohio.
A newly released assessment ranks the feasibility of converting 245 operational coal power plants in the U.S. into advanced nuclear reactors. The study was done by University of Michigan researchers.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently accepted the second phase of ISO New England’s longer term transmission planning tariff changes. The changes create a new process that will operate in addition to current transmission planning protocols.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and twelve other Democratic senators have written to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging her to reconsider the “overly stringent” three-pillars approach taken in proposed requirements for the Code Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (Section 45V Credit).