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The Florida Municipal Electric Association this week is hosting the first-ever Florida public power tabletop exercise where a cross-section of Florida public power utilities, along with federal, state, and local partners, will take part in a simulation of a major hurricane impacting Florida.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utility Service on May 16 issued a notice of funding opportunity for the Powering Affordable Clean Energy forgivable loan program. To be invited to submit a PACE loan application, applicants must first submit a Letter of Interest. LOIs can be submitted
A recent vote by lawmakers in Maine clears a path for a ballot question this year in which state residents will consider replacing investor-owned utilities in Maine with a statewide, consumer-owned utility called Pine Tree Power.
Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) last week introduced the Local Infrastructure Act (S. 1453), legislation that would amend the federal tax code to restore state and local governments’ ability to issue tax-exempt advance refunding bonds.
Smart meters can provide an entry point for hackers to destabilize the electric grid, according to a study by researchers at Oregon State University.
The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency program on April 18, 2023, selected Paul Eory, Manager of Strategy & Planning, Lansing Board of Water & Light (Michigan), to fill a vacant seat on the program’s committee. Eory will represent Region 10, comprising all DEED
The American Public Power Association supports efforts in Congress to streamline the federal permitting and siting process, eliminate excessive regulatory barriers, and ensure more predictable and timely decisions from relevant federal agencies, it said in a Statement for the Record submitted to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
EarthBridge Energy has acquired acreage in West Texas for an energy storage project the Houston based company plans to develop.