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The U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service on March 5 released final regulations relating to the implementation of elective payment of energy tax credits.
Crews with California public power utility Truckee Donner Public Utility District over the past several days have been hard at work restoring power to customers after a severe storm with snow and high winds hit the utility’s service territory.
The Virginia Municipal Electric Association has issued a request for proposals that seeks competitive proposals from qualified battery energy storage systems developers to design, build, and operate utility-scale BESS facilities with a commercial operation date in 2026.
The Village of Paxton, Neb., has entered into a Professional Retail Operating Agreement with Nebraska Public Power District that went into effect March 1.
The Board of Supervisors for Placer County, Calif., recently approved a 1,170-acre solar panel facility that will provide power to Sacramento Municipal Utility District customers in west Placer County.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Feb. 28 announced a Request for Proposals for up to $200 million for transmission projects to connect remote and isolated microgrids to existing infrastructure corridors in Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories of the United States.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has entered into an agreement that stems from recent litigation related to EIA’s plan to collect data tied to the electricity consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining activity.
A project proposed by Iowa public power utility Montezuma Municipal Light & Power and Iowa State University researchers has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for award negotiations with the goal of building the first “microgrid” in a rural Iowa community.