Public Power Current

The Rocky Mountain Institute has issued a new report intended to help utilities and utility stakeholders design and implement virtual power plants.

Plus Power on June 13 announced the close of construction and term financing for a utility-scale standalone battery storage system in New England. The Cranberry Point facility is located in Carver, Massachusetts.

The wind industry could benefit from the use of artificial intelligence to design and deploy wind plants, according to an article in Nature Energy written by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The American Public Power Association Board of Directors recently approved the appointment of Travas Deal, CEO of Colorado Springs Utilities and Peter Dion, General Manager of Wakefield Gas and Light Department, to serve on the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council. The CEO-led ESCC serves as

The Rochester, N.Y., City Council on June 18 voted to keep $500,000 in the city budget to lower energy bills for Rochester residents.

A recently released report will help inform the development of Seattle City Light’s charging infrastructure strategy as it plans for medium- and heavy-duty vehicle electrification in the future.

Roughly three-quarters of small and medium-sized businesses in the United States are interested in participating in a demand response program (73 percent) or electrifying currently non-electric business operations (74 percent), according to a new survey from the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative, a nonprofit organization that studies consumer and small business trends in the energy transition.

Massachusetts public power utility Shrewsbury Electric & Cable Operations recently welcomed a group of Khatadin sheep back to its solar array at a landfill in Shrewsbury, Mass.