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Electricity Markets
Nominations for the American Public Power Association’s Policy Makers Council are being accepted through November 28.
Energy Storage
Florida public power utility OUC recently completed the installation of a 4-megawatt/8-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system in St. Cloud, Fla.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
How the Public Power Mutual Aid Network keeps improving, and why continuing to grow utility involvement is key to its success.
Environment
Arizona public power utility Salt River Project announced on April 17 that Apple has joined as a partner supporting SRP’s Resilient Water and Forest Initiative, part of a continuing effort to ensure water resiliency.
Reliability
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission announced a set of actions in response to the power outages over the weekend of April 6-7 and Xcel Energy’s deployment of a precautionary outage that impacted tens of thousands of residents.
Transmission
A coalition of New England states jointly submitted two applications to secure federal funding to support investments in large-scale transmission and energy storage infrastructure to enhance grid reliability and resilience across the region.
Reliability
Guam Power Authority recently met with Aggreko to address the increasing demand for energy on Guam. The collaboration between GPA and Aggreko aims to ensure that temporary power is available by July 10, 2024.
Electricity Markets
The New York Independent System Operator recently launched a first-in-the-nation program to integrate aggregations into the wholesale electric markets of distributed energy resources, such as small-scale solar arrays, residential batteries, and electric vehicles.
Distributed Energy Resources
The U.S. Department of Energy released a new roadmap outlining solutions to speed up the interconnection of clean energy onto the nation’s transmission grid and clear the existing backlog of solar, wind, and battery projects seeking to be built.
Energy Efficiency
A breakdown of some of the factors that the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy considers when compiling its Utility Efficiency Scorecard.