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When Concord Municipal Light Plant received notice that its financial and accounting software would no longer be supported, it turned out to be a good thing.
Energy New England (ENE) has launched a unique new turnkey toolkit that provides utilities with operational guidance to easily stand up their own electric vehicle program.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) on Aug. 26 announced the start of construction on a large-scale, 20-megawatt (MW) energy battery storage project in Northern New York, one of the largest such projects in the nation.
The Tennessee Valley Authority began allowing the local utilities it serves to generate up to 5% of energy from distributed resources, and public power utilities weigh in on what this new flexibility means for their customers.
A total of 121 U.S. coal-fired power plants were repurposed to burn other types of fuels between 2011 and 2019, the Energy Information Administration reported.
A new Mason PUD 3 substation in southeast Mason County, Wash., formally dedicated in July will help the PUD better serve the growing appetite for power in southeast Mason County, beginning with commercial and residential activity for the Squaxin Island Tribe in Washington State.
The City of Boulder and investor-owned Xcel Energy announced on July 28 they have reached a potential settlement that, if approved by the City Council and Boulder voters, would suspend the city’s decade-long municipalization effort.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29 finalized several changes to the regulations for coal combustion residuals, known as CCR or coal ash.