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The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors has adopted its 2024-2025 Strategic Plan that outlines specific goals and initiatives the district will focus on over the next two years.
The following is a transcript of the June 10, 2024, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA's News
A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory identifies barriers within rules and operational practices that may limit the value existing interregional transmission can provide to electric consumers and identifies a suite of options that could enable greater use of and value from interregional transmission.
The electric utility sector including public power utilities are adopting a wide variety of strategies to mitigate against the threat that wildfires pose to utility infrastructure.
Austin Energy’s power generation and transmission facilities have completed their weatherization readiness activities in preparation for the summer season, the Texas public power utility said on June 6.
San Antonio, Texas public power utility CPS Energy announced the extension and expansion of a previous 15-year power purchase agreement that will more than double its share from the Avangrid’s Peñascal wind farm in Kenedy County, Texas.
The Turlock Irrigation District Board of Directors has appointed Brad Koehn as General Manager, effective June 21, 2024.
In a report citing comments filed by the American Public Power Association, the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission warned of the harmful effects of increasing capital requirements for banks involved in hedging transactions with non-publicly traded entities.