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During a planned outage, Florida public power utility Gainesville Regional Utilities is completing a major maintenance milestone at the J.R. Kelly Plant with the overhaul of the gas turbine.
The City of Walters, Oklahoma, a public power community, recently received news from U.S. Rep. Tom Cole’s (R-Okla.) office regarding the Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill that was recently signed into law.
Austin Energy on Feb. 10 announced that its GreenChoice® renewable energy subscription program has evolved to include Texas solar energy.
John Hairston, who has served as administrator and CEO of the Bonneville Power Administration since January 2021, is announcing his retirement from federal service, BPA reported on Feb. 6. The Board of Commissioners for the Eugene Water & Electric Board recently voted to select Hairston as EWEB’s next general manager.
The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Energy Subcommittee recently held a hearing titled, “Oversight of FERC: Advancing Affordable and Reliable Energy for All Americans.” Topics covered in the hearing included reliability, cybersecurity and data centers. Transmission was also discussed at the hearing, as well as electricity markets. The hearing may be viewed here.
The City of St. Petersburg, Fla., recently issued a solicitation seeking the services of qualified experienced consulting firms to determine if it is in the city’s best interests to establish a city-owned municipal electric utility to replace Duke Energy Florida, an investor-owned utility.
President Trump on Feb. 3 signed into law a broad annual spending bill.
The Dalton, Ga., City Council recently approved a resolution authorizing public power utility Dalton Utilities (DU) to proceed with a proposal to issue revenue bonds to finance the construction of a new power plant.