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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will take action by June 2026 on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) proceeding initiated by the U.S. Secretary of Energy that directs the Commission to consider potential reforms designed to ensure the timely, orderly, and equitable integration of significant electrical loads -- such as the increasing demand from data centers -- into the nation’s transmission infrastructure, it said on April 16.
The New York Power Authority has awarded ANDRITZ a contract to supply five new generator stators for the Robert Moses Power Plant.
On April 13, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein and lineworkers from some of the state’s energy providers joined forces to celebrate North Carolina Lineworker Appreciation Day.
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.