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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The U.S. Department of Energy on Jan. 26 issued an emergency order to mitigate blackouts in New York and the surrounding area following Winter Storm Fern.
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Electricity Markets
As we again prepare to welcome our members to Washington for our annual Legislative Rally, the phrase often heard repeated throughout the halls of Congress when talking about energy is “resource adequacy.” In its simplest terms, resource adequacy means having enough capacity and reserves for grid
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Public power utilities are continuing to make progress in their power restoration efforts in the wake of Winter Storm Fern.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
With travel to Washington, D.C., disrupted because of Winter Storm Fern, the deadline for members of the House to join in signing a letter in support of H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025 has been moved to this Friday, January 30. The deadline had been Jan. 27.
Map of public power generation projects in development.
Generation
A snapshot of the nearly nine gigawatts of capacity in development with public power ownership, by fuel type and stage.
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Bonds and Financing
Fort Pierce Utilities Authority, a Florida public power utility, has received the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for FPUA’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024.
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Community Engagement
Colorado Springs Utilities is giving its customers the opportunity to weigh on the brick color and design for the perimeter wall around a new substation.
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Security
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on Feb. 4 approved by voice vote five cybersecurity-related bills.
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Generation
The Electric Power Research Institute on Feb. 3 announced a collaboration with Prologis, NVIDIA, and InfraPartners to study smaller-scale data centers designed for distributed inference, a form of real-time data processing used across sectors including logistics, health care, finance, and public services.
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Distributed Energy Resources
Texas public power utility CPS Energy is expanding its community solar program through a Request for Proposal seeking up to 50 megawatts of community solar.