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Reliability
The PJM Interconnection and its members have sufficient resources to serve the 67 million people in its footprint this winter under expected conditions, though electricity demand continues to outpace the addition of new generating resources, it said on Nov. 3.
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Electricity Markets
An analysis by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that state-level load growth in recent years (through 2024) has tended to reduce average retail electricity prices.
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Generation
Tech companies are starting to recognize that they can’t just arrive in a community and expect utilities “to solve their problems” as it relates to the development of data centers, said Mike Dammer, Manager of Emerging Technology at Florida public power utility Lakeland Electric.
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Customer Service
Thirty-three individuals have completed the APPA Academy’s Key Accounts Certificate Program in the past year. The graduates were honored during APPA’s annual Customer Connections Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Energy Storage
The Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), on behalf of eight of its member participants, has entered into a 20-year Energy Storage Service Agreement (ESSA) with Aypa Power for the Trolley Battery Energy Storage System (Trolley BESS) in San Bernardino County, Calif.
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Bills and Rates
Heartland Energy announced that wholesale power rates will remain steady for 2026 -- marking the ninth consecutive year without an increase.
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Customer Service
The Imperial Irrigation District, California’s third largest public power utility, is implementing technological upgrades throughout 2025 that directly benefit customers.
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Generation
California Community Power, a joint powers authority representing nine community choice aggregators, recently issued a Request for Proposals to procure new cost-effective clean energy and reliability resources.
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Generation
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Request for Offer (RFO) seeking proposals from companies to build and power AI data centers on DOE’s Paducah site in Kentucky.
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Energy Storage
Xcel Energy plans to build the Midwest’s largest battery energy storage site at the Sherco Energy Hub in central Minnesota. It wants to double the amount of battery storage adjacent to a coal plant from 300 megawatts of storage to 600 megawatts.