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The complexity of wholesale power markets can seem daunting, especially for smaller players without a deep bench of analysts and traders. But public power utilities looking to navigate those markets can find help in the form of partners such as The Energy Authority (TEA).
Offshore wind resources along the central California Coast are well suited to meet demand when it is most needed, according to a new study by researchers at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is installing its first owned and operated, grid-scale, battery energy storage system near an industrial complex in Vonore, Tenn. The Vonore Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) will use lithium-ion batteries to store 40 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy, enough to
A graphic overview of what’s involved in the transmission system, why it is important, and how much it affects the electric bill.
A committee in the Maine Legislature on July 24 voted to recommend the formation of a task force that would create a proposed transition and business plan for a state consumer-owned electric utility.
One of the many things that makes public power utilities unique are the strong bonds that they have forged with their communities. People who work at public power utilities are always ready to pitch in and help in any way they can when their community needs them. Job descriptions don’t matter. It’s
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29 finalized several changes to the regulations for coal combustion residuals, known as CCR or coal ash.
Florida public power utility JEA, the City of Jacksonville and the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) on July 30 announced a settlement of all disputed issues relating to the new Units 3 and 4 of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, a nuclear power generating facility in Georgia, and an amended and restated power purchase agreement.
The City of Boulder and investor-owned Xcel Energy announced on July 28 they have reached a potential settlement that, if approved by the City Council and Boulder voters, would suspend the city’s decade-long municipalization effort.
A new Mason PUD 3 substation in southeast Mason County, Wash., formally dedicated in July will help the PUD better serve the growing appetite for power in southeast Mason County, beginning with commercial and residential activity for the Squaxin Island Tribe in Washington State.