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The Middleborough Gas & Electric Department recently held a heat pump forum with the Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant. MGED and TMLP are Massachusetts public power utilities.
A bill that calls for a public utility study tied to the possible replacement of investor-owned Rochester Gas & Electric has been re-introduced in the Monroe County, N.Y., Legislature.
ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc., Arizona public power utility Salt River Project, South Carolina’s Santee Cooper and the Tennessee Valley Authority have been recognized as top utilities by Business Facilities, a leading economic development and site selection magazine.
Tenaska on March 22 officially announced the Longleaf CCS Hub, a carbon capture and storage project planned for Mobile County, Ala.
Rick Dunn, General Manager of Washington State’s Benton PUD, has started publishing an energy newsletter through Substack. The newsletter offers another way in which the public power utility can engage in community education and outreach.
Hitachi Energy and Grid United, an independent electrical transmission company, recently announced a collaboration to deliver high-voltage direct current technology for Grid United transmission projects that will interconnect the eastern and western regional power grids in the U.S.
President Biden over the weekend signed into law a package of six annual appropriations bills, including one that funds the Department of Health and Human Services, which controls the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Power outages, wildfires, rooftop solar systems, and demand response programs create a need for utilities to communicate with customers quickly and clearly. Utilizing omnichannel communication systems can help ensure customers stay in the know and also help utilities respond to the many outage-related calls and emails from customers.