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The Department of Energy on Sept. 5 announced the selection of 293 hydroelectric improvement projects across 33 states that will receive up to $430 million in incentive payments to upgrade hydropower facilities. A large number of the funding recipients are public power utilities.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations on Sept. 5 opened applications for up to $100 million in funding to support pilot-scale energy storage demonstration projects.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 30 published in the Federal Register a final rule related to stationary combustion engine electronic reporting.
In a recent Q&A with the American Public Power Association, Tom McKee, electric utility director for the city of Cartersville, Ga., a public power community, provided details on the city’s advanced metering infrastructure project and discussed the utility’s efforts to maintain high levels of reliability.
A recent vote by the Western Resource Adequacy Program’s Resource Adequacy Participant Committee paves the way for WRAP participants to enter a binding program in 2027.
The Bonneville Power Administration recently launched a new program that it said will significantly streamline the process to replace pre-existing wood poles to minimize potential infrastructure failure and improve reliability of BPA's grid.
Chelan PUD’s North Shore substation is now serving customers, “providing more flexibility and reliability for years to come in the growing communities of Chelan and Manson,” the PUD said on Sept. 3.
Washington State’s Grant County PUD has 75 applications for new and expanding power service from large load customers in a queue maintained by the PUD’s Large Power Solutions team.