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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Oct. 2 issued a request for proposals to stakeholders to increase operating reserves, with the grid operator looking to add up to an additional 3,000 megawatts for the winter 2023-2024 peak load season.
The Lincoln Electric System Administrative Board approved a recommendation for Emeka Anyanwu to be the new CEO of the Nebraska public power utility.
Nucor Corp. on Sept. 27 announced a collaboration with fusion power company Helion to develop a 500-megawatt fusion power plant.
The PJM Interconnection and 80 other settling parties on Sept. 29 filed a settlement package with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to comprehensively resolve 15 separate FERC complaints regarding extraordinary non-performance charges resulting from Winter Storm Elliott in December 2022.
The Northern California Power Agency announced that Kevin Howard has joined NCPA's Legislative and Regulatory Affairs team as the agency’s Federal Power Resource Program Manager. The NCPA Federal Power Resource Program Manager represents NCPA before the United States Bureau of Reclamation, the
Convergent Energy and Power on Sept. 27 announced its plans to provide Massachusetts public power utility West Boylston Municipal Light Plant with a battery storage system.
California community choice aggregator Peninsula Clean Energy will receive 220 megawatts of wind power as part of the largest renewable energy procurement project contract the CCA has signed to date, it said on Sept. 28.
Rhythmos on Sept. 19 announced the commercial deployment of its mobility and utility network management platform in East Tennessee through a collaborative demonstration project with the Tennessee Valley Authority and an Electric Power Research Institute program.