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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted Empire Offshore Wind LLC a preliminary injunction that allows construction activities to resume on the Outer Continental Shelf for the Empire Wind project.
The Long Island Power Authority CEO Carrie Meek Gallagher and Suffolk County, N.Y., Executive Ed Romaine announced a new partnership to evaluate the potential for large-scale solar energy development across major industrial areas in Suffolk County.
The U.S. Department of Energy has begun notifying American Public Power Association members of new Rural and Municipal Cyber Assistance Program funding.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, vice-chair and chair of the National Energy Dominance Council respectively, on Jan. 16 joined Mid-Atlantic governors urging the PJM Interconnection “to temporarily overhaul its market rules to strengthen grid reliability and reduce electricity costs for American families and businesses by building more than $15 billion of reliable baseload power generation,” the Department of Energy said.
Snohomish County PUD’s water utility is celebrating 80 years of service. The water utility “has been hard at work for eight decades now, striving to bring its customers one of Earth’s most precious resources,” the Washington State PUD noted.
Hydro-Québec on Jan. 16 started delivering electricity through the Appalaches–Maine interconnection line under the terms of the 2018 contract with Massachusetts electricity distribution companies.
The PJM Interconnection Board of Managers on Jan. 16 outlined a series of actions to be taken by PJM and its stakeholders in 2026 to address the multiple challenges of integrating new data centers and other large load customers onto the grid “while preserving electricity system reliability and affordability for the 67 million people PJM serves,” the grid operator said.
The PJM Interconnection 2026 Long-Term Load Forecast Report confirms the trend of significant growth in electricity demand over the next 20 years but slightly decreases the expected load growth for near-term years compared with last year’s report, it said on Jan. 14.