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Community Engagement
Nebraska Public Power District has launched the emPOWERING Nebraska’s Tomorrow program to share information about upcoming generation and infrastructure projects, it said on May 9.
Electricity Markets
Providing value to customers and a governance structure that preserves the benefits of the Federal Columbia River Power System are the key reasons the Bonneville Power Administration announced that it will pursue joining the Southwest Power Pool’s Markets+ day-ahead market, BPA said on May 9.
Bonds and Financing
The American Public Power Association on May 8 released the Elective Pay Blueprint for Public Power, which provides guidance to public power utilities that are considering the development of projects relying on elective payment of energy tax credits.
Community Engagement
A group of U.S. Representatives recently visited natural gas and coal plants operated by Colorado Springs Utilities, a public power utility.
Transmission
Southwest Power Pool’s board of directors recently approved an industry expert panel (IEP) recommendation for Transource Oklahoma, LLC with Transource Energy, LLC to build the Mathewson-to-Redbud transmission project.
The following is a transcript of the Feb. 10, 2025, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA’s News
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
In a recent interview with APPA, Steve Wendell, Civil Engineering Supervisor at Oregon public power utility McMinnville Water and Light, discusses a communications trailer developed by the utility that will enable it to communicate in the event that a disaster damages or wipes out communication systems regionally or nationally.
Generation
NRG Energy and LS Power Equity Advisors on May 12 announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NRG will acquire a portfolio of natural gas generation facilities and a commercial and industrial virtual power plant platform from LS Power in a cash and common stock transaction valued at approximately $12 billion enterprise value.
Transmission
Dairyland Power Cooperative and GridLiance Heartland, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Transmission, LLC, have reached an agreement to jointly develop and co-own the MariBell Transmission Project, a 139-mile, 765-kilovolt/161-kV double circuit transmission line in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Electricity Markets
Morningstar DBRS expects the virtual power purchase agreement market to grow substantially in the coming years, it said in a recent report.