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Generation
Grant PUD Commissioners discussed proposed changes during their meeting on May 13 to Grant PUD’s application process for customers requesting loads of 500 kilowatts or higher.
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Generation
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on May 23 issued an emergency order directing the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, in coordination with Consumers Energy, to ensure that the 1,560 megawatt, J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich., remains available for operation, “minimizing any potential capacity shortfall that could lead to unnecessary power outages,” DOE said.
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Energy Efficiency
A team of high school interns is on a treasure hunt for energy savings around the Wenatchee Valley in Washington State. So far, their work shows the potential to cut electricity use up to half at large facilities, including Wenatchee High School in Wenatchee, Wash, Chelan PUD said on May 16.
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Grid Modernization
California public power utility Burbank Water and Power is launching a meter system upgrade project this spring.
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Transmission
Construction for Nebraska Public Power District’s Norfolk-Stanton North Project is set to begin in June 2025 with anticipated completion in late 2025.
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Generation
Geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and adjoining states could produce electricity equal to one-tenth of the current U.S. power supply, the U.S. Geological Survey assessed in a paper released May 22.
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Energy Storage
Lightshift Energy, a leading developer, owner, and operator of energy storage projects, will build Vermont’s largest battery energy storage project at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor manufacturing facility in Essex Junction.
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Distributed Energy Resources
AES Corp. has entered into two long-term power purchase agreements to support Meta's data centers with 650 MW of solar projects that AES is bringing online in the Southwest Power Pool market.
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Generation
The Lower Colorado River Authority Board of Directors recently approved a business plan of $591.4 million and authorized capital investments of about $1.63 billion for energy, water and public service projects to support Texas in fiscal year 2026.
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Transmission
A study that finds that the western U.S. and Canada electricity grid is significantly underutilized in many areas could help steer new data centers, industrial plants, and major generating projects toward corridors and regions with available headroom, avoiding long waits for new transmission lines and interconnection approvals.