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The Florida Municipal Electric Association recently recognized excellence in Florida public power at an awards banquet where the winners of the FMEA Safety Awards were announced.
ISO New England on Feb. 21 filed the finalized results of its 18th Forward Capacity Auction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
There are “immediate and serious challenges to the reliability of our region’s electric grid,” and the entire industry — utilities, states and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator — must work together and move faster to address them, John Bear, CEO of MISO, recently said.
Operators plan to retire 5.2 gigawatts of U.S. electric generating capacity in 2024, a 62% decrease from last year when 13.5 GW was retired and the least in any year since 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration’s latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory.
Platte River Power Authority recently issued an all-dispatchable resources request for proposals to help firm its increasingly renewable energy portfolio.
Arevon Energy Inc. on Feb. 21 announced that it has secured more than $1 billion in aggregate financing commitments for its Eland 2 Solar-plus-Storage Project in Kern County, California.
A Texas judge on Feb. 23 granted a temporary restraining order in a proceeding involving the Energy Information Administration’s recently announced plan to collect data tied to the electricity consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining activity.
In a recent letter sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris (R-WA) and Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) voice concerns about the threat to reliability if the Lower Snake River dams are breached.