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Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has signed off on a proposal by Southwest Power Pool to thoroughly and expeditiously review requests from potential customers seeking to use large amounts of electricity, SPP said on Jan. 15.
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Reliability
Officials with the Imperial Irrigation District and the City of Indio, Calif., on Jan. 6 gathered on to break ground on the first of four major energy infrastructure projects that will collectively provide enough power to energize 16,000 single-family homes worth of power in the City of Indio. The
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Bills and Rates
The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has executed renewed electric “Flex Rate Agreements” with two regional manufacturers, providing them with slightly lower electric rates in exchange for continued economic development investments and stable workforce numbers, the New York public power utility said on Jan. 8.
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Distributed Energy Resources
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted Empire Offshore Wind LLC a preliminary injunction that allows construction activities to resume on the Outer Continental Shelf for the Empire Wind project.
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Distributed Energy Resources
The Long Island Power Authority CEO Carrie Meek Gallagher and Suffolk County, N.Y., Executive Ed Romaine announced a new partnership to evaluate the potential for large-scale solar energy development across major industrial areas in Suffolk County.
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Security
The U.S. Department of Energy has begun notifying American Public Power Association members of new Rural and Municipal Utility Cyber Assistance Program funding.
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Electricity Markets
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, vice-chair and chair of the National Energy Dominance Council respectively, on Jan. 16 joined Mid-Atlantic governors urging the PJM Interconnection “to temporarily overhaul its market rules to strengthen grid reliability and reduce electricity costs for American families and businesses by building more than $15 billion of reliable baseload power generation,” the Department of Energy said.
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Environment
Snohomish County PUD’s water utility is celebrating 80 years of service. The water utility “has been hard at work for eight decades now, striving to bring its customers one of Earth’s most precious resources,” the Washington State PUD noted.
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Transmission
Hydro-Québec on Jan. 16 started delivering electricity through the Appalaches–Maine interconnection line under the terms of the 2018 contract with Massachusetts electricity distribution companies.
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Electricity Markets
The PJM Interconnection Board of Managers on Jan. 16 outlined a series of actions to be taken by PJM and its stakeholders in 2026 to address the multiple challenges of integrating new data centers and other large load customers onto the grid “while preserving electricity system reliability and affordability for the 67 million people PJM serves,” the grid operator said.