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Fitch Ratings assigned the Indiana Municipal Power Agency's approximately $427 million power supply system refunding revenue bonds, 2026 series A an “A+” rating.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity on July 9 released a draft of the 2026 National Transmission Needs Study for a 60-day public comment period.
Drexel, Gastonia, La Grange, New Bern, Newton, and Wake Forest, North Carolina, each received $10,000 through ElectriCities’ Downtown Revitalization Grant program to help boost downtown economic development and support their revitalization goals.
San Francisco, Calif., took a major step on July 9 as it explores public power expansion, with the Planning Commission voting unanimously to certify the final Environmental Impact Report for the city’s proposed acquisition of PG&E’s electric assets that serve San Francisco.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) on July 8 announced it has closed a loan up to $3.26 billion to AEP Texas that will finance approximately 100 transmission projects across Texas.
Salt River Project and Pattern Energy have signed a power purchase agreement for 600 megawatts of wind energy from Pattern Energy’s SunZia Project.
The City of Wamego, Kansas, is taking a major step forward in strengthening its electric utility system with the recent delivery of four CAT 3 megawatt generators, the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency reported in its newsletter.
The Public Power Generation Agency (PPGA), which includes the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska and four other electric utilities, recently completed a bond refunding on the Whelan Energy Center Unit 2 (WEC 2) project located near Hastings, Neb.