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Energy New England on May 2 announced that its President and CEO John Tzimorangas has been appointed to the Embodied Carbon Intergovernmental Coordinating Council by the Massachusetts House Minority Leader.
A potential partnership between Everett-based fusion company Helion and Chelan PUD continues to evolve, the Washington State public power utility.
The Western Transmission Consortium, a member-owned entity dedicated to building interregional and interjurisdictional transmission infrastructure across the Western United States, announced its official launch on May 6. With founding members representing eighty-four utilities across the eleven
A new project involving the American Public Power Association, a group of APPA members and the Argonne National Laboratory focused on wildfire risk mitigation kicked off with its first meeting on April 18.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) recently introduced the Help Hoover Dam Act. The bill would make available roughly $45 million in stranded funds for operations, maintenance, and improvement projects at Hoover Dam.
At its April 24, 2025, meeting, the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency Board of Directors voted to approve three additional contracts from current member municipalities seeking to continue their beneficial relationship with IMEA through 2055.
Thanks to rapid clean energy deployment, expansion of battery storage, and strategic efforts to build up emergency reserves, California heads into summer with more resources to meet electricity demand, including the extreme heat conditions experienced in recent years, but California energy leaders are remaining vigilant about ongoing risks.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s State Energy Office has selected seven projects to receive more than $20 million to improve North Carolina’s electric grid. The selected projects will update grid infrastructure to increase load capacity and resilience against severe weather,