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Staff from ISO New England’s Internal Market Monitoring unit and Energy New England’s Operations and Regulatory and Market Affairs teams recently toured Braintree Electric Light Department’s Watson 1 & 2 peaking generation units in Massachusetts following a meeting on the units’ participation in the ISO New England markets.
Michigan public power utility Traverse City Light & Power (TCLP) and The Salvation Army are partnering to launch a new locally administered energy-assistance program beginning October 1, 2026. The program will help qualifying TCLP customers pay both their electric bills and home-heating costs.
As Colorado Springs Utilities continues its transition to a more diverse energy portfolio, investments in a stronger electric grid will help ensure reliable service for customers today and in the future, the public power utility recently noted in an update on transmission projects.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds recently announced the completion of the final report from the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force, which was established in January to evaluate opportunities for advancing nuclear energy technologies and infrastructure in Iowa.
A Massachusetts television station recently highlighted the Northeast Public Power Association’s Training Center in Littleton, Mass.
The New York Power Authority and the Long Island Power Authority are included among the participants in a three-year effort to develop a next-generation grid foundation model. New York-based Brookhaven National Laboratory will lead the project.
LS Power, through its affiliate Great Basin Transmission, on Sept. 3 held a groundbreaking ceremony in Ely, Nevada, officially marking the start of construction on the Southwest Intertie Project-North (SWIP-North), a new 285–mile, 500 kilovolt transmission line connecting the Midpoint Substation near Twin Falls, Idaho, with the Robinson Summit Substation near Ely, Nevada.
Sustained high temperatures have contributed to persistently high electricity demand in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the regional transmission organization for most of the state, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Sept. 3. Hourly load in ERCOT averaged a