Energy Efficiency
With assistance from the state’s Department of Commerce and $5.3 million in funding, Snohomish County PUD helped more than 1,400 households in Snohomish County and Camano Island receive free energy-efficient appliances.
Environment
The Imperial Irrigation District has formally backed California’s proposed Delta Conveyance Project, a plan to modernize the State Water Project and secure water supplies for seven out of ten Californians.
Workforce
Colin Selby has been named Deputy General Manager of Energy Resources at California public power utility Merced Irrigation District.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Sept. 3 approved H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025.
Transmission
The American Public Power Association on Sept. 2 joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 529 organizations in a letter to Congress calling for meaningful and bipartisan action on permitting reform.
Generation
MISO on Sept. 4 announced the first 10 projects to be evaluated under its new Expedited Resource Addition Study (ERAS) process, an innovative effort aimed at fast-tracking needed generation projects across the region.
Security
The House Homeland Security Committee on Sept. 3 approved H.R. 5079, the Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government Act, which would reauthorize the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) for an additional 10 years.
Reliability
Hitachi Energy on Sept. 4 announced an investment of more than $1 billion to expand the production of critical electrical grid infrastructure in the United States.
Generation
California public power utility SMUD has entered into a new partnership with PlanetBids, a procurement software provider for California agencies.
Community Engagement
The public power community of Vineland, N.J., is a recipient of a New Jersey Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Equity grant in the amount of $3.7 million.