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For Joshua Nunn, who received a scholarship from the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments program and started work this month at the public power utility in Rocky Mount, N.C., public power is a family calling.
The Board of Trustees for Texas public power utility CPS Energy on Jan. 23 voted to approve a generation planning portfolio that includes a blend of gas, solar, wind and energy storage.
The Lower Colorado River Authority on Jan. 24 said that it will build a new peaker power plant in Central Texas to provide an additional 190 megawatts of dispatchable power to the Texas power grid.
California community choice aggregator Peninsula Clean Energy on Jan. 24 said that it has signed contracts for energy storage, geothermal, wind and small hydropower projects.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 19 directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to develop and submit reliability standards requiring internal network security monitoring for high-impact bulk electric system cyber systems and medium-impact systems with high-speed internet connections.
Participants’ governing boards in the Carbon Free Power Project being developed by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems are moving forward with the development and deployment of a small modular reactor project, UAMPS reported on Feb. 28.
In the wake of recent power outages affecting parts of Michigan, communities in the state recently took steps to explore the option of municipalization.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security in late February approved a bill that would set up redundant cyber incident reporting mandates.
Santee Cooper has issued a request for proposals to assist in meeting specific load growth expectations in their service territory starting January 1, 2024.
Legislation has been introduced in the Florida Legislature that would give state utility regulators the ability to regulate public power utilities with customers outside city boundaries.