grid
Electricity Markets
Two Jamestown Board of Public Utilities engineers received first-hand experience with the Danish approach to thermal energy and district heating as they participated in a New York State thermal energy delegation to Denmark hosted and funded by the Danish District Energy Advisory Board. Officials from the New York Power Authority also traveled to Denmark as part of the delegation.
nuke
Generation
NextEra Energy Resources is continuing to make progress in evaluating the recommissioning of its Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa, it said on Jan. 24.
grid
Bills and Rates
The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors on Jan. 21 approved a power rate update designed to enhance service reliability and support long-overdue infrastructure improvements, all while ensuring that IID’s rates remain among the lowest in California.
grid
Electricity Markets
The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities announced the election of David Haley as its new Board President.
grid
Energy Storage
Lightshift Energy, an energy storage project developer, owner and operator, has partnered with Basis Climate to complete the sale of nearly $10 million of investment tax credits.
grid
Energy Storage
Ascend Analytics has launched a sales process on behalf of ESA Solar Energy for its Midcontinent ISO battery energy storage system portfolio.
grid
Generation
A new project led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office aims to address cooling-system challenges tied to data centers by incorporating geothermal underground thermal energy storage technology for data centers.
people
Workforce
American Municipal Power, Inc. announced that Kellie Pertuset has joined AMP as Vice President of Human Resources and Talent Management.
data
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined forces with Tennessee public power utility EPB and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic polarization stabilization over a commercial network with no downtime.
grid
Reliability
The House last week passed H.R. 471, the Fix Our Forests Act, by voice vote.