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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Recovery efforts following Super Typhoon Bavi remain ongoing across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
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Reliability
Cowlitz Public Utility District has received $3 million in combined federal and state grant funding to relocate and underground a 5.4-mile distribution power line serving the senior citizen community of Ryderwood and nearby rural areas in Cowlitz and Lewis Counties in Washington State.
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Transmission
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) on July 8 announced it has closed a loan up to $3.26 billion to AEP Texas that will finance approximately 100 transmission projects across Texas.
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Salt River Project and Pattern Energy have signed a power purchase agreement for 600 megawatts of wind energy from Pattern Energy’s SunZia Project.
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Reliability
The City of Wamego, Kansas, is taking a major step forward in strengthening its electric utility system with the recent delivery of four CAT 3 megawatt generators, the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency reported in its newsletter.
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Bonds and Financing
The Public Power Generation Agency (PPGA), which includes the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska and four other electric utilities, recently completed a bond refunding on the Whelan Energy Center Unit 2 (WEC 2) project located near Hastings, Neb.
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Workforce
A $1.4 million Department of Energy grant will fund nuclear reactor safety training and workforce development in Nebraska.
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Electricity Markets
The U.S. Energy Information Administration on July 7 said it expects wholesale electricity prices this summer will be lower than last year for much of the country.