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Vistra Corp. on Jan. 5 announced it has executed definitive agreements to acquire Cogentrix Energy, consisting of 10 modern natural gas generation facilities totaling approximately 5,500 MW of capacity. Cogentrix is indirectly owned by funds managed by Quantum Capital Group. The acquisition includes
Public Service Enterprise Group in late December announced that the New York State comptroller has given final approval of the extension of the operations services agreement with the Long Island Power Authority.
The Board of Trustees for Texas public power utility GEUS has appointed Mark Stapp as Interim General Manager as the Board begins a search for a permanent General Manager.
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission in December approved Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s Organized Wholesale Market application, finding that Tri-State’s expanded participation in the Southwest Power Pool Regional Transmission Organization is in the public interest.
AMP announced the most recent recipients of its Employee Innovator Award, recently presented at an all-staff meeting to two different teams of employees.
The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors in December adopted a resolution that calls for the setting of guideline principles to ensure that new large electric energy loads do not compromise the reliability of the local electric grid or impact the costs to existing customers.
Idaho Falls Power was honored with the "System Improvement Award" at the Utah Associated Municipal Power System 2025 Annual Member Meeting. “This award recognizes utilities that have made significant improvements in electric service and reliability for their customers and this year, we are being
The North American Energy Standards Board in December announced the adoption of NAESB Business Practice Standards to support Western Interconnection Loading Relief (WLR), a new flow-based approach for managing congestion on the bulk electric grid.