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Florida-based NextEra Energy announced plans with Google to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center, Iowa’s only nuclear facility, which is located in Palo, near Cedar Rapids.
Speaking at a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission technical conference on Oct. 21, Northern California Power Agency General Manager Randy Howard said that the electric utility industry has been working collaboratively when it comes to wildfire mitigation efforts.
For water and electric utilities, it is critical to communicate with customers about potential leaks, rate changes and outages. Speed and clarity are essential to ensuring water is not wasted and customers know about outages. This boosts customer satisfaction. The use of texting by the City of Bryan, Texas, and Bryan Texas Utilities has yielded a wide range of benefits.
All high pressure sodium street light fixtures within the City on Manitowoc, Wisconsin, have now been upgraded to LED.
The City of Rochester, Minnesota, and Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) have each been awarded funding through the Minnesota Solar on Public Buildings Program to install new solar energy systems on the rooftops of their facilities.
At its September 18 meeting, the WPPI Energy Board of Directors re-elected Michael Avanzi (Kaukauna Utilities), Steve Brooks (Waupun Utilities), Casey Engebretson (Black River Falls Municipal Utilities) and Melanie Krause (Menasha Utilities) to three-year terms on the organization’s 11-member Executive Committee.
President Trump on Oct. 24 named Laura Swett Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to initiate rulemaking procedures and consider an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking presenting potential reforms to ensure the timely and orderly interconnection of large loads to the transmission system.