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The Tennessee Valley Authority is pursuing a 100-megawatt solar generation pilot project on a closed coal ash site at the Shawnee Fossil Plant near Paducah, Kentucky.
The Austin, Texas, City Council on Oct. 5 approved a new tool to aid public power utility Austin Energy in wildfire detection and response.
Several Upper Midwest energy companies filed plans on Sept. 29 with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to move forward with a transmission project in Minnesota and northeastern South Dakota.
New York Power Authority President and CEO Justin Driscoll recently met with Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Malik Evans to highlight NYPA’s $500,000 Smart Cities grant funding to support the purchase of smart nodes for the city’s streetlighting system.
The City Council of San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 3 took an initial step forward to explore the possibility of forming a municipal utility for electric service.
Standard Power, a provider of infrastructure as a service to advanced data processing companies, recently announced plans to develop two small modular reactor-powered facilities that will together produce nearly 2 gigawatts of energy and has chosen to work with NuScale Power and ENTRA1 Energy to support Standard Power’s two projects.
Holtec International has submitted a filing with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to formally begin the process of seeking federal reauthorization of power operations at the 800-megawatt Palisades Power Plant in Covert Township, Michigan.
A coalition of New England states recently called for proposals to secure federal funding for regional collaboration on grid infrastructure.