Public Power Current

Primoris Services Corporation has been selected to provide mechanical construction of the new Unit 4 at the Grand River Energy Center in Chouteau, Oklahoma.

A rapidly changing energy environment prompted the City of Huntsville, Ala., and Huntsville Utilities, the city’s public power utility, to establish a task force to develop a forward-looking approach to energy planning, the city said on Dec. 5.

Bitcoin mining firm MARA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a wind farm in Hansford County, Texas, with 240 MW of interconnection capacity and 114 MW of nameplate wind capacity.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office announced a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $289.7 million to Sunwealth Holdco 18 LLC’s Project Polo.

California-based Sonoma Clean Power has issued its first bond for the purpose of lowering the cost of renewable energy.

In a recent interview with the American Public Power Association, Mark Montgomery, executive director for Logan City Light and Power, the utility that serves the public power community of Logan, Utah, detailed the successful completion of a battery energy storage system in Logan and discussed the utility’s current generation portfolio mix and how Logan City Light and Power approaches resource planning.

The City of Toledo, Ohio’s, Department of Public Utilities is on track to complete its Advanced Metering Infrastructure project by the end of the year, the city reported on Dec. 4.

APPA and the Large Public Power Council recently filed comments at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on FERC’s proposed rule that preliminarily finds that existing North American Electric Reliability Corporation supply chain risk management reliability standards have gaps and may be insufficient to protect against the myriad of cyber supply chain threats.