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Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Sept. 29 issued an order on PJM’s proposed Reliability Backstop Procurement (RBP) to secure additional power supply to address short-term reliability concerns.
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Community Engagement
Public power utilities across the U.S. are planning a wide range of activities for their communities to celebrate Public Power Week, which will take place October 4-10. The American Public Power Association is joining the festivities and sharing sample resources, templates, and more that member
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Electricity Markets
The Southwest Power Pool and the California Independent System Operator submitted their joint report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission outlining a coordinated approach to addressing future market seams issues as organized electricity markets continue to evolve across the Western
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Workforce
Nearly 90 electric lineworkers representing approximately 40 public power utilities came together recently over three days in Grand Island, Neb., to receive hands-on training while building a training facility for future public power lineworkers. The inaugural Heartland Municipal Lineworkers
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Distributed Energy Resources
Platte River Power Authority (Platte River) and ContourGlobal recently celebrated the completion of phase II of the Black Hollow Sun project near Severance, Colorado, bringing northern Colorado’s largest solar project fully online. Community leaders, project partners and stakeholders gathered for a
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Electricity Markets
The first phase of the PJM Interconnection's new interconnection process started Sept. 28, with 617 projects capable of generating nearly 169 GW of electricity remaining in the study Cycle. This marks the first group of proposed generation resources to be processed under a new approach designed to
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Bills and Rates
A new policy paper from the California Municipal Utilities Association examines the key drivers that are increasing water system costs and explains why rate design alone is not enough to address the water affordability problem for households. A durable statewide affordability system will require
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Customer Service
Open configuration options Open configuration options Open configuration options Open configuration options Open configuration options Open configuration options Open configuration options SPONSORED ADVERTISING FEATURE The use of texting has boosted the ability of Massachusetts public power utility