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Clark Public Utilities and the Pend Oreille Public Utility District (PUD) have entered into a long-term power sales agreement under which Pend Oreille PUD will sell all energy produced by the Box Canyon hydroelectric project in Washington State to Clark Public Utilities from Jan. 1, 2026, through December 2041, with contract extensions available under mutual agreement.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Nov. 22 signed a bill into law that places a two-year moratorium for certain types of cryptocurrency mining operations.
Iowa public power utility Muscatine Power and Water (MPW) has entered into a purchase power agreement (PPA) with Nokomis Energy for the Muscatine Solar 1 project, MPW’s first utility-scale renewable project in Muscatine.
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Nov. 17 adopted a five-year, statewide, $1 billion transportation electrification program.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Nov. 17 took a number of actions addressing reliability issues tied to the growth of inverter-based resources (IBRs).
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently released an updated proposal to reach carbon dioxide (CO2) neutrality by 2045.
Researchers at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a tool to make it easier for utilities to interconnect residential solar panels to the grid.
Clean energy installations dropped 55 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period in 2021, slowed in part by widespread delays, according to a new report from the trade group American Clean Power.