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Grid Modernization
New York Power Authority President and CEO Justin Driscoll recently met with Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Malik Evans to highlight NYPA’s $500,000 Smart Cities grant funding to support the purchase of smart nodes for the city’s streetlighting system.
Electricity Markets
The City Council of San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 3 took an initial step forward to explore the possibility of forming a municipal utility for electric service.
Generation
Standard Power, a provider of infrastructure as a service to advanced data processing companies, recently announced plans to develop two small modular reactor-powered facilities that will together produce nearly 2 gigawatts of energy and has chosen to work with NuScale Power and ENTRA1 Energy to support Standard Power’s two projects.
Generation
Holtec International has submitted a filing with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to formally begin the process of seeking federal reauthorization of power operations at the 800-megawatt Palisades Power Plant in Covert Township, Michigan.
Distributed Energy Resources
A coalition of New England states recently called for proposals to secure federal funding for regional collaboration on grid infrastructure.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Members of the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board visited California public power utility Truckee Donner Public Utility District on Oct. 2.
Transmission
The Western Power Pool recently released a paper outlining a proposed concept for the development of an actionable transmission plan to support the needs of the future energy grid across the Western Interconnection.
Electricity Markets
This summer, the United States hit the second highest peak electricity demand since the Energy Information Administration began collecting data in 2016, the agency said.