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The U.S. Department of Energy on Sept. 9 announced an expansion of the National Community Solar Partnership.
Public power utility crews traveled to Louisiana to pre-position to help with power restoration efforts as Hurricane Francine continued on a path to the state’s coastline.
The Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority in August authorized staff to move forward with entering the Southwest Power Pool’s Generation Interconnection queue.
The American Public Power Association recently sent a letter to the leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee outlining APPA’s priorities for the Water Resources Development Act conference process.
The Bureau of Land Management has approved the Greenlink West Transmission Project, which will create a system of new transmission lines and facilities crossing federal, state, Tribal and private lands from North Las Vegas to Reno, Nev., through Clark, Esmeralda, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Storey and Washoe counties, the BLM said on Sept. 9.
A coalition of energy and former utility regulatory officials is calling for increased coordination and information sharing between market players in the electricity and natural gas industries.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange program recently released a draft roadmap to improve processes for interconnecting clean energy resources to the distribution and sub-transmission grids and is seeking feedback from energy stakeholders.
California public power utility Pasadena Water and Power will hold a virtual meeting to discuss a roadmap that will define the key actions and future decision points to help best position PWP to achieve Pasadena, California’s goal to source all electricity from carbon-free sources by the end of 2030.