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The Government Finance Officers Association has awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award to the Fort Pierce Utilities Authority for its budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025.
Under an accelerated large load action plan, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation intends to file revised registry criteria and Reliability Standards on or before December 31, 2026, NERC said in a recent letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The American Public Power Association (APPA) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) on March 19 sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright to emphasize the importance of federal preference power and its central role in the mission of the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs).
X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology, and Talen Energy Corporation, an independent power producer, signed a Letter of Intent to assess deploying X-energy’s XE-100 small modular reactors in Pennsylvania and across the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization market.
In response to a recent guest column published in Florida’s Tampa Bay Times, Scott Corwin, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association, said in a Letter to the Editor that APPA strongly disagrees with the claim that “the private sector does better than the public sector” when it comes
NextEra Energy on March 20 confirmed that President Trump has approved the development of up to 10 gigawatts of natural gas powered generation in Texas and Pennsylvania.
According to new analysis from The Brattle Group, better utilization of the existing US power system could save consumers more than $100 billion over the next decade.
Burlington Electric Department announced a five-year renewal of a power purchase agreement with Vermont Wind’s Sheffield Wind Farm.