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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Members of the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board visited California public power utility Truckee Donner Public Utility District on Oct. 2.
Reliability
The Austin, Texas, City Council on Oct. 5 approved a new tool to aid public power utility Austin Energy in wildfire detection and response.
Transmission
Several Upper Midwest energy companies filed plans on Sept. 29 with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to move forward with a transmission project in Minnesota and northeastern South Dakota.
Grid Modernization
New York Power Authority President and CEO Justin Driscoll recently met with Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Malik Evans to highlight NYPA’s $500,000 Smart Cities grant funding to support the purchase of smart nodes for the city’s streetlighting system.
Electricity Markets
The City Council of San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 3 took an initial step forward to explore the possibility of forming a municipal utility for electric service.
Generation
Standard Power, a provider of infrastructure as a service to advanced data processing companies, recently announced plans to develop two small modular reactor-powered facilities that will together produce nearly 2 gigawatts of energy and has chosen to work with NuScale Power and ENTRA1 Energy to support Standard Power’s two projects.
Distributed Energy Resources
The Tennessee Valley Authority is pursuing a 100-megawatt solar generation pilot project on a closed coal ash site at the Shawnee Fossil Plant near Paducah, Kentucky.
Generation
Bret Colby, Principal for Nuclear Oversight at Texas public power utility CPS Energy, has been named as a member of a Public Utility Commission of Texas Advanced Nuclear Working Group.
Generation
Bret Colby, Principal for Nuclear Oversight at Texas public power utility CPS Energy, has been named as a member of a Public Utility Commission of Texas Advanced Nuclear Working Group.
Energy Storage
Delorean Power LLC and Massachusetts public power utility Holden Municipal Light Department on Oct. 12 announced a new battery energy storage facility.