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The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality State Energy Office is investing $5 million in permanent and mobile microgrids that will provide accessible power in the wake of future weather disasters, it said on Aug. 12.
Mason County PUD No. 3 recently provided an update on its Belfair electrical upgrade project to increase resiliency, reliability, and capacity for North Mason, Washington, customers.
The Oregon Department of Energy recently released a draft Oregon Energy Strategy for public comment.
To address the urgent challenges posed by the rapid growth of large, power-dense loads, particularly artificial intelligence data centers and crypto mining operations, the University of Texas at Austin recently convened a “Large Load Symposium.”
The PJM Interconnection has launched the second phase of its new planning tool, NextGen.
In a recent interview with APPA, Doug Buresh, President and CEO of the Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency, details the key benefits that the joint action agency offers to its All Requirements members.
Through a new power purchase agreement between Kairos Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority unveiled on Aug. 18, Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will deliver up to 50 megawatts to the TVA grid that powers Google data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.
The White House Office of Management and Budget Office’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) on August 11 posted a notification on its regulatory dashboard that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has sent a draft final repeal rule entitled, “Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations,” to OIRA for interagency review.