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U.S. power demand has remained essentially flat for the past decade, “but this is all about to change as a pending surge in demand growth will be the biggest challenge for utility companies in decades,” consulting firm Wood Mackenzie recently said.
Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD is inviting the community to a ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the Jennings Park Substation on Nov. 4.
U.S. electricity consumption is growing fastest in Texas and “one of the main sources of growing demand for power is large-scale computing facilities such as data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.
California’s battery storage capacity has expanded rapidly, increasing by 3,012 megawatts in just six months to reach a total of 13,391 MW.
A transmission project that will connect a substation in central Utah to a substation in east-central Nevada took another key step forward with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service announcing the availability of the project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement.
A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory takes a closer look at customer tradeoffs when it comes to the use of home solar plus energy storage systems, quantifying how utility bill savings and the reliability value from mitigated power interruptions vary with reserve levels.
Vermont public power utility Stowe Electric Department on Oct. 18 announced its collaboration with Slippery Slope Goats LLC and Agritech Institute for Small Farms to launch an innovative grazing pilot program designed to sustainably manage vegetation along transmission lines.
The City of Denton, Texas, recently unveiled "Powerful Connections," an initiative that allows individuals to gift payments toward utility services -- electricity, water, and solid waste and recycling.