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In 2022, the transformer at the Eugene Water and Electric Board’s River Road substation in Oregon experienced equipment failure and was deemed no longer fit for service. Since that time, the power for roughly 3,000 customers has been rerouted through other substations, thanks to EWEB's robust
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has released a digital tool to analyze the ability of a photovoltaic energy storage system to provide backup power during short-duration interruptions.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Nov. 1 announced an update to emergency operations reserve levels that it utilizes.
The PJM Interconnection recently presented stakeholders with a proposal that it will recommend to its Board of Managers to expand the regional transmission system to meet the needs of data center growth, generator retirement and new generation resource capacity in the Mid-Atlantic region.
KPP Energy and the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency are pursuing loan funding from the Rural Utilities Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to install solar energy facilities in Kansas.
Fitch Ratings recently upgraded ratings of Heartland Energy to “A” from “A-,“ with a stable outlook.
South Fork Wind recently shipped the first offshore wind turbine from the Port of New London, Conn., to the project’s offshore site, marking the start of the final construction phase for the offshore wind farm.
The successful integration of the growing amount of wind and solar power into the bulk power system will require broader and more detailed weather models, according to a report from the Energy Systems Integration Group.