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The City Council of Clearwater, Fla., recently voted in favor of a study that will examine the possible formation of a public power utility for the city, which is currently served by investor-owned Duke Energy.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations last week passed fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills for the Department of Energy and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
California community choice aggregator MCE has agreed to work with Golden State Clean Energy toward building solar plus battery storage resources in Fresno County, Calif.
A July 31 windstorm with gusts up 100 miles per hour resulted in the largest outage event in the Omaha Public Power District’s recorded history. By the end of the week, OPPD and other utilities providing mutual aid had made significant power restoration progress.
At a meeting held during its annual conference in Palm Beach, the Florida Municipal Electric Association elected a new slate of officers to preside over the organization’s board of directors.
Electric utilities in the U.S. are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence to track and rapidly respond to wildfires.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) recently vowed to strongly defend tax-exempt financing in 2025, when Congress is expected to debate nearly $8 trillion in tax policy decisions.
The U.S. Department of Energy will enter into realty negotiations with Hecate Energy LLC for a solar project capable of delivering up to one-gigawatt of clean energy within an 8,000-acre area of DOE owned land at the Hanford Site in Washington State.