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The Environmental Protection Agency on July 17 issued a direct final rule and companion proposal to extend the compliance deadlines for owners and operators to comply with the facility evaluation report part 1 and compliance deadlines for the coal combustion residual management (CCR) unit provisions in the 2024 final Legacy CCR rule.
APPA and several power sector trade associations on July 17 submitted a joint letter to the Environmental Protection Agency reaffirming support for a rulemaking to adopt a universal waste management standard for discarded photovoltaic solar panels.
The Southwest Power Pool on July 9 published its report on the April 26 load-shed event in Northwest Louisiana that analyzes the event, identifies the main causes that led to the need to shed load, examines how SPP responded during and after the event, and provides recommendations and improvements
In June, the Bonneville Power Administration’s Olympia District teams moved wood pole structures away from the edge of a steep cliff to increase reliability.
Florida public power utility Kissimmee Utility Authority has appointed Richard Mark Flury as the utility’s vice president of engineering and operations, effective July 14.
California public power utility Turlock Irrigation District has chosen OATI’s webSmartEnergy Distributed Energy Resource Management System to enable commercial load control and residential smart thermostat programs with next-generation technology, OATI reported on July 1.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has unveiled its new Carbon Capture, Allocation, Transportation, and Sequestration module (CCATS), which EI said will allow it to model carbon capture in the coming decades.
CNBC recently released a list of what it says are the 10 states in the U.S. with grids that are best positioned to power the artificial intelligence data center boom.