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Holyoke Gas & Electric General Manager James Lavelle has been elected by the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company Board of Directors to serve as its chairman. Lavelle, who has been a director on MMWEC’s board since 2004, was elected to the one-year term earlier this month at an MMWEC
In 2020, after South Carolina’s Rock Hill Utilities implemented texting, the public power utility -- whose operations include electric, water and sanitation -- saw quick results.
The Seattle City Council recently approved Seattle City Light’s new Integrated Resource Plan.
Over the past three years, Oregon public power utility Eugene Water and Electric Board has been upgrading the downtown underground power system by replacing six cable vaults with modernized, cost-effective infrastructure.
American Public Power Association President & CEO Scott Corwin on July 23 participated in a White House event to reaffirm public power utilities’ commitment to ensuring customers are not burdened with costs caused by infrastructure investment to meet growing data center demand.
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.