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Customer Service
College Station Utilities, which serves College Station community members, has seen higher customer satisfaction since implementing text messaging. Customers benefit from the utility’s communication about outages, both planned and unplanned, through TextPower, an ARCOS company that provides mission-critical communications via text.
Electricity Markets
Data center load growth is the primary reason for recent and expected capacity market conditions in the PJM Interconnection, including total forecast load growth, the tight supply and demand balance, and high prices, PJM’s market monitor said in a recent report.
Bonds and Financing
California public power utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District successfully launched the first Green Commercial Paper notes issued by any U.S. municipal electric utility, it said on June 6.
Bonds and Financing
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt recently signed into law a bill that will increase the maximum bond capacity for the Grand River Dam Authority from $2 billion to $3.6 billion.
Generation
Eaton and Siemens Energy on June 3 announced a fast-track approach to building data centers with integrated onsite power.
Reliability
California public power utility Imperial Irrigation District is prepared and equipped to meet the expected energy demand for this summer, it said on June 3.
Reliability
Missouri public power utility Rolla Municipal Utilities has been awarded a $500,305 grant from the Missouri Public Utility Alliance.
Electricity Markets
Hitachi and Southwest Power Pool on June 5 announced a strategic partnership that they said will produce an integrated artificial intelligence-based solution that accelerates generator interconnection by reducing study analysis times by 80% while also informing faster, higher-quality decision-making by generator interconnection customers.