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Electricity Markets
The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office on January 16 announced eight conditional commitments through its Title 17 Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment program, comprising $22.92 billion to utilities serving more than 14.78 million customers across 12 states.
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Bonds and Financing
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS on Jan. 16 released additional guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic content bonus for the clean energy production and investment tax credits.
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Generation
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently published a framework to develop long-term electricity load forecasts that accounts for building and transportation electrification impacts.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange on Jan. 16 released a new roadmap that can lead to shorter timelines and better outcomes for connecting clean energy resources to the distribution and sub-transmission grids, DOE said.
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Generation
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced Friday that it is leading an application for $800 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor program.
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Generation
Trinity Gas Storage LLC, an independent gas storage company, on Jan. 16 announced the start of operations of phase one at its 24 Bcf gas storage facility in East Texas.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is sending an electric line construction team to Los Angeles, Calif., to assist with electric restoration for areas impacted by wildfires, NTUA reported on Jan. 16.
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Distributed Energy Resources
Leeward Renewable Energy on Jan. 15 announced over 700-megawatt alternating current of renewable energy projects in Oklahoma that are supported in part by long-term power purchase agreements with Google.
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Transmission
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office, in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), on Jan. 16 released an action plan for offshore wind transmission development in the U.S. West Coast Region to address coastal and offshore wind (OSW) transmission challenges on the U.S. West Coast.
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Grid Modernization
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) on Jan. 15 announced $30 million for projects “to drive advancements in the resiliency, efficiency, and adaptability of America’s power grid.”