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The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments program recently approved funding for various grants and scholarships. The DEED program approved $909,041 in funding for 31 projects. The action took place at DEED’s Spring 2024 meetings held in New Orleans, La

Participants in the Western Resource Adequacy Program published a letter on April 22 in which they said they will not elect to move to a binding program in summer 2026. Instead, participants will propose a revised WRAP transition plan with the goal of beginning a binding program in 2027.

Final energy tax credit transferability rules released last week by the Treasury Department make clear that a partnership made up of one or more applicable entities, including public power utilities, can elect to transfer certain energy production tax credits they could also claim through elective payment.

Georgia Power on April 29 declared that Plant Vogtle Unit 4 has entered commercial operation. Vogtle Unit 3 entered commercial operation on July 31, 2023. Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 are two 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactors.

As she prepares to join the growing ranks of female public power utility lineworkers, Rylee Gunn, an apprentice with Florida public power utility Fort Pierce Utilities Authorities, gained valuable experience while participating in the APPA Lineworkers Rodeo in Lafayette, Louisiana this month.

Thanks to TextPower, utility customers of Georgetown, Texas, can now text the utility if their service goes out instead of calling in and being put on hold or leaving a voice message that a utility phone operator then has to retrieve and listen to in order to log the pertinent information into the utility’s outage management system.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York Power Authority have started construction of New York State’s largest onsite solar plus storage project -- a solar carport canopy at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The City of Fayetteville, N.C., is the recipient of a $245,040 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, the city said in late May.

The results of a study conducted by researchers at Department of Energy national laboratories suggest that existing community solar projects are expanding solar access in the United States to a more demographically diverse population.

The following is a transcript of the June 10, 2024, 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