Map location of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Community Engagement
How the utility serving this village northwest of the state capital ensures it stays community-oriented and engaged in maintaining quality of life.
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Generation
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Jan. 21 held a markup of eleven bills related to the Clean Air Act (CAA), hydropower licensing, and emergency communications.
Tom Barry, CEO of the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company
Energy Efficiency
The new CEO of the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company on his priorities for the JAA and goals for ensuring New England has the power supply it needs.
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Reliability
The House on Jan. 22 took a step closer to completing action on the fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
With Winter Storm Fern forecast to bring extreme cold, heavy snow, and damaging ice from the Southwest through the Mid-Atlantic, extending into the Northeast, public power utilities, investor-owned electric companies and electric cooperatives have been coordinating closely to ensure the industry is prepared to safely restore power as quickly as possible for any impacted communities.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Members of the House have until January 27 to join in signing a letter in support of H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Crews from public power utilities were hard at work over the weekend restoring power to customers in the wake of Winter Storm Fern.
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Community Engagement
Arizona public power utility Salt River Project (SRP) is making progress toward reaching its 2035 Sustainability Goals, which focus on reducing SRP’s carbon footprint, ensuring a resilient water supply, evolving SRP’s grid and customer energy solutions, promoting a sustainable supply chain, reducing waste and engaging the customers and communities SRP serves, it said on Jan. 15.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Electric utility crews, including those at public power utilities, have been at the ready over the last few days to help with the disaster unfolding in Houston, but so far, the situation in the biggest city in Texas looks more like a matter of saving lives than of getting power restored.
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Bills and Rates
Rapidly growing electricity demand from data centers, electrification, and other sources can -- under certain conditions -- lower average retail electricity rates while enabling needed grid investments, according to findings released by the Electric Power Research Institute.