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Five years ago, Imperial Irrigation District (IID) relied primarily on social media to communicate outage information—without a way to reach customers directly.
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority on April 13 announced the safe return of its second restoration crew, which arrived back to the Territory April 12 after spending several weeks in Jamaica supporting recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest ever recorded storms in the Atlantic.
JEA hosted a two-day joint security and environmental oil spill training response exercise in conjunction with local, state and federal agencies on April 7-8.
The City of Augusta, Kansas, executed a planned outage to address identified disconnect switches needing replacement, KPP Energy reported in the March 2026 issue of its Lightning Round newsletter.
Missouri River Energy Services recently provided details on a Residential Customer Satisfaction Study conducted during the fall of 2025. MRES partnered with GreatBlue Research to conduct the study.
An estimated $282 million in power transmission reliability investments are on the horizon through 2029, according to the latest update of ISO New England’s Regional System Plan Project List.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects U.S. hydropower generation to increase by 5% in 2026 but remain 1.8% below the 10-year average following snow drought conditions in some states.
On April 9, Seattle City Light welcomed Rob Santoff as its Interim General Manager and CEO.