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The array of technologies – and tech functions – that will be necessary to help utilities and customers transition to a cleaner electric grid.
The Department of Energy (DOE) should use Defense Production Act (DPA) authorities to prioritize distribution transformers, large power transformers, and other critical grid components ahead of other technologies, and it should act quickly to alleviate the most acute supply chain challenge with distribution transformers, the American Public Power Association (APPA), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), said in joint comments submitted to DOE on Nov. 30.
LUMA Energy recently announced the launch of Puerto Rico’s federally funded Substation Modernization Initiative (SMI) with the modernization and reconstruction of the Manatí Substation in the municipality of Manatí.
In a recent interview with Public Power Current, Rory Weis, General Manager of Iowa public power utility Denison Municipal Utilities (DMU), and Electric Manager Mike Wight, detailed how the utility is responding to delays for acquiring transformers due to ongoing supply chain challenges.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) has retired its last coal-fired power plant, which the public power utility said makes it the largest utility in Michigan to generate coal-free power by 2022.
A quick look at advanced meter deployments by type of utility over the past decade.
Lineworkers from Michigan public power utility Traverse City Light & Power recently helped to rescue a bear from a tree by successfully working with a city biologist to tranquilize the bear and bring it safely down from the tree.
The City of Clarksville, Arkansas, has signed an agreement with Syntex Industries to design and construct a hydrogen power plant.
How public power is creating a culture of security — from making sure that employees are aware of potential threats to encouraged to follow protocols that could mitigate the risk of attacks on their systems.
Lessons on managing change as APPA and the public power sector overall experience significant transformation.