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Ryan Hurst, Utilities General Manager for the City of Wahoo, Nebraska, has plenty on his plate these days. Among other things, he is overseeing a transition to advanced metering infrastructure for city residents and making sure a substation upgrade project goes smoothly.
Texas public power utility CPS Energy has invested more than $1 billion in goods and services to serve its customers in fiscal year 2024, with local businesses benefitting from these investments, it said on March 6.
A transmission project designed to transport 1,200 megawatts of power between New England and Canada “is not viable at this time,” a spokesperson for National Grid said on March 5.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed an artificial intelligence tool that aims to help utilities analyze the reams of data used to track the status of the electric power grid.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that distribution transformer capacity may need to increase 160 percent to 260 percent by 2050 compared to 2021 levels to meet residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation energy demands.
The New York Power Authority on March 12 issued a request for qualifications to pre-qualify renewable development companies and investors that meet requirements to collaborate with NYPA on the development of renewable energy generating projects and storage systems, including solar photovoltaic, wind, battery storage, green hydrogen, geothermal, and renewable-related transmission.
The Board of Trustees of Iowa public power utility Cedar Falls Utilities recently named Susan Abernathy the next General Manager of CFU.
GridStor, a developer and operator of utility-scale battery energy storage systems, recently announced that it closed its first tax credit sale with J.P. Morgan in support of its Goleta Energy Storage project in California.