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Over the last four weeks, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power electric crews and mutual aid partners have been working 16-hour shifts, 7 days a week, to safely restore electric service to the Pacific Palisades area, focusing their efforts on areas with the least damage to power distribution infrastructure, LADWP reported on Feb. 7.
In a recent interview with APPA, Fred Clark, President and CEO of Energy Southeast, details the decision-making process behind the move to rebrand Alabama Municipal Electric Authority and change its name to Energy Southeast.
A new study from Duke University scholars finds that the U.S. power system has extensive untapped potential to more quickly add large loads while mitigating the need for costly system upgrades -- as long as those loads can occasionally cut their power use when the grid is most stressed. The analysis
The Mississippi Public Service Commission recently approved a special contract between Mississippi Power Company and Compass Datacenters Jan I, LLC, “marking a significant milestone in the state's efforts to enhance its energy infrastructure and support economic development,” the PSC said on Feb. 7.
The Tennessee Valley Authority has entered into a Cooperative Agreement with Type One Energy to jointly develop plans for a potential TVA fusion power plant project in the Tennessee Valley region using Type One Energy stellarator fusion power technology.
The Brownsville Public Utilities Board, a Texas public power utility, has received notice that two of its grant applications are being considered for funding by the Bureau of Reclamation, it said on Feb. 3.
Florida public power utility OUC is collaborating with Capacitech Energy in a microgrid project to demonstrate Capacitech Energy’s largest deployment to date of the PowerLink, a cable-like and rapid response energy storage system.
A company called PowerConneX, Inc. recently outlined plans to develop a natural gas-fired power plant to serve a data center in Ohio.