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Massachusetts public power utility Rowley Municipal Lighting Plant has started preparation work on the installation of a new substation transformer.
A bipartisan group of 31 senators on Nov. 14 sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., encouraging the agency to immediately release the highest amount of Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding available under the recently signed continuing resolution (CR).
The Gila River Indian Community Utility Authority, an Arizona public power utility, in late September held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Olas S-thoñ solar site.
Google will invest $40 billion in Texas that will boost cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with the development of data center facilities, programs to strengthen energy capacity and affordability, and workforce training in the state. This is Google's largest investment in any
Blackstone, through funds affiliated with Blackstone Energy Transition Partners, on Nov. 13 announced a $1.2 billion investment to build Wolf Summit Energy, a fully contracted, 600-megawatt greenfield combined-cycle gas turbine power generation facility in Harrison County, West Virginia.
Iowa public power utility Spencer Municipal Utilities recently provided an update on work related to a transmission line project that will boost reliability. “Over the last few weeks, SMU has had contractors working in our community updating a transmission line that is one of our main feeds to bring
Working natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 states ended the natural gas refill season (April 1–October 31) with more than 3,900 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to estimates based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report released on November 6.
A short-term extension of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) to January 30 is included in H.R. 5371, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, which was recently signed into law by President Trump.