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Calpine on July 30 announced a new 190-megawatt agreement with Dallas-based CyrusOne, a global data center developer and operator, to serve a new data center adjacent to the Thad Hill Energy Center in Bosque County, Texas.
Helion, a Washington-based fusion energy company, on July 30 announced that it has begun work on the site of its first fusion power plant, Orion, marking a major step in bringing fusion electricity to the grid. Located in Chelan County, Washington, the site was chosen for its ready access to transmission and legacy of energy innovation.
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.
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.
Naperville, Illinois’ public power utility is using artificial intelligence to improve services and forecast electricity load growth.
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.
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.
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.