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The Western Electricity Coordinating Council recently released its 2024 Western Assessment of Resource Adequacy. The annual report evaluates resource adequacy risk over the next 10 years, with this year’s report revealing a sharp rise in large loads, creating the need for unprecedented resource additions.
Michael Frantz, Director Division 1 and Becky Hackler Arellano, Director Division 4, were sworn in for four-year terms on the Turlock Irrigation District Board of Directors, ending in December 2028.
Primoris Services Corporation has been selected to provide mechanical construction of the new Unit 4 at the Grand River Energy Center in Chouteau, Oklahoma.
A rapidly changing energy environment prompted the City of Huntsville, Ala., and Huntsville Utilities, the city’s public power utility, to establish a task force to develop a forward-looking approach to energy planning, the city said on Dec. 5.
Bitcoin mining firm MARA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a wind farm in Hansford County, Texas, with 240 MW of interconnection capacity and 114 MW of nameplate wind capacity.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office announced a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $289.7 million to Sunwealth Holdco 18 LLC’s Project Polo.
California-based Sonoma Clean Power has issued its first bond for the purpose of lowering the cost of renewable energy.
In a recent interview with the American Public Power Association, Mark Montgomery, executive director for Logan City Light and Power, the utility that serves the public power community of Logan, Utah, detailed the successful completion of a battery energy storage system in Logan and discussed the utility’s current generation portfolio mix and how Logan City Light and Power approaches resource planning.