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Environment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on July 29 announced that the agency will begin a formal reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, including reconsidering all of EPA’s regulations and actions that rely on the Endangerment Finding.
Community Engagement
In a recent interview with APPA, Tim Haines, general manager of California public power utility Alameda Municipal Power, details the utility’s community engagement efforts and discusses the steps the utility has taken to achieve 100% clean energy since 2020.
Grid Modernization
Naperville, Illinois’ public power utility is using artificial intelligence to improve services and forecast electricity load growth.
Transmission
Colorado Springs Utilities, CORE Electric Cooperative, Platte River Power Authority and United Power are joining forces to explore an innovative transmission solution that will better serve their member-customers.
Generation
Bloom Energy on July 24 announced that it will deploy its fuel cell technology at select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data centers in the U.S.
Reliability
A Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force has posted a white paper on potential improvement opportunities for transforming how the North American Electric Reliability Corporation develops its reliability standards in three areas: standards initiation, standards development, and balloting.
Distributed Energy Resources
The New York Power Authority on July 29 published a draft of its Updated Strategic Plan, which details the Power Authority’s efforts to develop, own and operate renewable generation and energy storage projects to improve the reliability and resiliency of New York’s grid.
Community Engagement
The Imperial Irrigation District, a California public power utility, recently announced the award of more than $1.1 million in grants to 20 local educational institutions through its new Grants for Energy Modernization in Schools (GEMS) program.