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Electric Vehicles
The transportation sector, specifically electric vehicles, is a whole new world for utilities. Indeed, EVs are a whole new world for everyone. In theory, EV charging offers opportunity for public power utilities. As electricity sales otherwise flatten, EVs create new demand. As public power
Different applications for automation and artificial intelligence within utilities, including how public power is using these tools as technology and customer expectations evolve.
An overview of how public power can take advantage of billions of dollars in funding for grid improvements, cybersecurity, and customer assistance.
A run down of steps utilities can take to ensure their community members have equal access to the same reliability and quality electricity.
Security
The opportunities for leveraging federal funding for public power projects are numerous – as are the entities that can help.
How funding from the bipartisan infrastructure act and the Inflation Reduction Act will support different aspects of energy technology development and adoption – from generation to end use.
A rundown of how much interconnection queues have expanded over the past few decades, including what’s getting added and how wait times have lengthened.
Key factors to consider as public power utilities look to benefit from a suite of federal funding opportunities through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The City of Newberry, S.C., recently concluded an internship funded by the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy and Efficiency Developments program, which involved a student from a local technical school learning about and working with fiber optics and advanced metering infrastructure.
Electricity Markets
How the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is developing new policies to meet the technical and structural demands presented by load growth.