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Randy Howard, general manager of Northern California Power Agency, and Mason Baker, CEO and general manager of Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, on Feb. 24 testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries on federal wildfire policy.
Tom Barry, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC), attended the State of the Union Address on February 24, as a guest of Massachusetts First District Rep. Richard Neal, Ranking Member on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Clean energy resources funded through a new agreement tied to a data center in Minnesota include a 300-megawatt iron-air battery system installation.
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) on Feb. 25 received the American Public Power Association’s Public Service Award at APPA’s Legislative Rally in Washington, D.C. Westerman was honored by APPA for exceptional leadership on issues of importance to public power -- particularly in his vital role as chairman
After successful efforts to reduce speculation from the public power utility’s power “queue” -- or waiting list for connection -- Grant PUD’s Large Power Solutions group is working to reconcile transmission capacity, in collaboration with the PUD’s Transmission Planning group, after "cleansing" the queue.
The Florida Municipal Power Agency recently hosted Department of Energy Deputy Secretary James Danly and Rebecca Michael, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Energy Infrastructure Security at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, at the Sand Lake Energy Center in Florida.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Feb. 25 announced the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing has closed a historic $26.5 billion loan package that will support two wholly owned subsidiaries of Southern Company -- Georgia Power and Alabama Power.
Amazon announced plans to invest $12 billion in northwest Louisiana to build state-of-the-art data center campuses that will support cloud computing technologies.