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The City of Walters, Oklahoma, and Walters Public Works Authority in June celebrated the groundbreaking of a new Substation Capacity Enhancement Project.
The Northern California Power Agency recently applauded California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing legislation into law that extends current policy to ensure that public power customers receive the full value of the Central Valley Project hydroelectric generation their communities have funded and invested in for more than eighty years.
A flexible arrangement for data center energy consumption, compared to an inflexible one, would produce cost savings of up to 5 percent in Texas, 4 percent in the Mid-Atlantic region, and 2 percent in the western U.S. states, a new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found.
The American Public Power Association recently coordinated a free three-day cybersecurity training to help public power utility professionals build cyber resilience and readiness, as part of APPA’s Cyber Pathways program.
Colorado Springs Utilities on July 20 reached a new peak electric demand at 1,034 megawatts.
Indiana Michigan Power on July 20 said it has requested approval from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to build a 1,520 megawatt natural gas combined cycle generation facility at its Rockport, Indiana, site, to increase its generation capacity and meet the projected energy demand across Indiana.
The Kansas Municipal Energy Agency recently received a grant through the Fire Mitigation Planning Program, established by the Kansas Corporation Commission State Energy Program.
The Department of Energy is hosting a Liberty Eclipse 2026 Training Week event focused on public power utilities and electric cooperatives later this year on the Liberty Eclipse Testbed Environment located in New York.