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The City Council of Pueblo, Colo., recently voted in favor of allocating funds to study the possible formation of a public power utility in the city.
City Utilities of Springfield, Mo., has been authorized by its Board of Public Utilities to move forward with an intent to finance capital expenditures for the construction of power generation and battery storage projects. Projects include 150 megawatts of additional electric generation and 36 MW of
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has issued a notice of intent to fund up to $1.3 billion “to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies,” OECD said on Sept. 27.
Wisconsin public power utility Manitowoc Public Utilities recently issued a request for proposals from developers to construct an aggregate generation project consisting of 30-megawatt solar generation and 10-MW battery storage system with minimum capability of four hours.
There is a “terrific opportunity for the U.S. utility industry to be intentional in how data center demand is met, setting an important precedent for handling future load growth in a way that better supports the grid,” a new report from CoBank said.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a comprehensive series of reforms to the California Independent System Operator’s interconnection process, ruling that the changes will help “ensure that interconnection customers are able to interconnect to the transmission system in a reliable, efficient, transparent, and timely manner,” CAISO said on Oct. 1.
On Sept. 30, the Bonneville Power Administration made its annual payment to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for the 41st consecutive year on time and in full, bringing cumulative payments to approximately $35.4 billion over this period. The total payment for fiscal year 2024 was $792.3 million.
Following months of engagement and negotiation, the Markets+ Greenhouse Gas Task Force recently approved protocol language that defines the mechanisms that Markets+ will use to track and report on greenhouse gas emissions.