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Developers and power plant owners plan to add 62.8 gigawatts of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity in 2024, the Energy Information Administration said on Feb. 15.
Millions of U.S. households would benefit from heat pumps, but the cost of installing the technology needs to come down to make their use a more attractive proposition, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
California community choice aggregator Silicon Valley Clean Energy closed its third prepayment transaction for clean energy project bonds, “which offers substantial savings to the agency, a benefit passed on to customers through rate stability and maintaining a rate discount,” it said on Feb. 20.
Massachusetts public power utility Chicopee Electric Light has joined the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company’s NextZero Connected Homes program, the utility reported in its Winter 2024 newsletter.
Ocala, Fla., City Council members recently approved a reduction to the power cost adjustment rate and an increase in the electric base rates, which will result in an approximate eight percent decrease in customers’ monthly bills.
A substation project in the public power community of Waterville, Kansas, is in the final stages of completion, Kansas joint action agency KPP Energy said.
The City Council of Austin, Texas, approved Austin Energy’s third-party contract for evaluating the electrical utility’s more than 12,000 miles of electrical distribution lines, Austin Energy said on Feb. 16.
During committee meetings last week for the Omaha Public Power District Board of Directors, OPPD leaders shared plans to add more generation to one existing plant and one currently under construction.