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California public power utility Truckee Donner Public Utility District is launching a community-wide water conservation campaign to help residents and businesses understand and prepare for the state’s “Making Conservation a California Way of Life” regulation, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2027. The
After more than 40 years with Benton PUD, Steve Hunter officially retired on June 30 and the PUD has named its primary operations facilities the Stephen B. Hunter Operations Center.
The U.S. Department of Energy on July 29 announced a landmark partnership with Kentucky public power utility Paducah Power System and other energy industry participants to redevelop portions of DOE’s Paducah Site into a data center campus accompanied by new affordable energy infrastructure.
Helicopter operations began supporting the next step in JEA's work to raise the electric transmission lines spanning the St. Johns River in Florida.
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey recently announced a multibillion-dollar energy investment in Grant County that will add 2.6 gigawatts of new natural gas generation for the region, marking another major step toward the Governor's 50 by 50 generation plan.
City Utilities of Springfield, Mo., has completed construction on its Blackman battery energy storage system, the utility’s first large-scale battery project in Springfield.
ContourGlobal has executed a large-scale power purchase agreement with Tesla for Project Sterling, a hybrid solar and battery energy storage project located in Arizona’s Western Area Power Administration region, with firm transmission rights into the California ISO market.
The Federal Communications Commission on July 28 added foreign produced power inverters to its list of products that are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the U.S. or the safety and security of U.S. persons.