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The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners on Nov. 4 approved and certified the final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Scattergood Generating Station Units 1 and 2 Green Hydrogen-Ready Modernization Project.
The Imperial Irrigation District continues to strengthen its electrical power grid, recently taking action that furthers the District’s strategic objectives of providing reliable power service to customers for years to come.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Request for Offer (RFO) seeking proposals from companies to build and power AI data centers on DOE’s Paducah site in Kentucky.
Xcel Energy plans to build the Midwest’s largest battery energy storage site at the Sherco Energy Hub in central Minnesota. It wants to double the amount of battery storage adjacent to a coal plant from 300 megawatts of storage to 600 megawatts.
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. has filed a suite of reliability standards with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in response to the “Milestone 3” directives from Order No. 901, “marking a critical step forward in enhancing grid reliability through improved model validation and data sharing requirements for inverter-based resources (IBRs), NERC said.
Deep Green on Nov. 5 announced plans to build a first-of-its-kind 24-megawatt, ultra-efficient data center in downtown Lansing, Mich.
The Southwest Power Pool on Nov. 5 reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring a reliable, affordable, and resilient electric grid through its Integrated Transmission Planning process -- a collaborative effort that has identified transmission solutions to meet the region’s evolving energy needs.
Fifty-three public power electric utilities and utility organizations earned Excellence in Public Power Communications Awards from the American Public Power Association.