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The Midcontinent ISO on May 15 announced the selected developers for two critical transmission projects that will strengthen reliability and support the region’s long-term energy needs.
Two electric utility subsidiaries of Black Hills Corporation, a utility based in Rapid City, South Dakota that serves 1.37 million electricity and natural gas and electricity customers in eight Western states, are now participating in the California ISO's Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), CAISO reported on May 6.
Massachusetts public power utility Holyoke Gas & Electric announced that the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board has issued its Final Decision approving HG&E’s LNG Infrastructure & Resiliency Project, with conditions, on April 24.
Ashtrom Renewable Energy leaders were recently joined by members of CPS Energy, SOLV Energy, and elected officials as they broke ground on El Patrimonio, a new solar facility in Bexar County, Texas.
Henderson Municipal Power & Light has issued a request for offers to interested parties with the intent of securing 30 megawatts of long-term MISO Zone 6 capacity to meet its capacity obligations beginning June 1, 2030, through May 31, 2040.
The Public Service Commission of South Carolina approved an application by Dominion Energy and Santee Cooper to jointly construct a natural gas combined-cycle generating facility.
The Environmental Protection Agency on May 14 released a pre-publication version of its proposed rule to revisit the unmanaged combustion residual leachate (CRL) provision in the 2024 Steam Electric Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELG) rule.
A total of 21 teams recently competed at the Northeast Public Power Association's Lineworker’s Rodeo, to kick of its RodE&O Conference and Expo at Loon Mountain Resort in Lincoln, New Hampshire.