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Electricity Markets
The American Public Power Association’s Legislative & Resolutions Committee approved eight policy resolutions during the association’s 2026 Legislative Rally. These member-sponsored resolutions will guide APPA’s advocacy efforts in 2026 and beyond.
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Reliability
Randy Howard, general manager of Northern California Power Agency, and Mason Baker, CEO and general manager of Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, on Feb. 24 testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries on federal wildfire policy.
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Bills and Rates
Tom Barry, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC), attended the State of the Union Address on February 24, as a guest of Massachusetts First District Rep. Richard Neal, Ranking Member on the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Energy Storage
Clean energy resources funded through a new agreement tied to a data center in Minnesota include a 300-megawatt iron-air battery system installation.
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Reliability
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) on Feb. 25 received the American Public Power Association’s Public Service Award at APPA’s Legislative Rally in Washington, D.C. Westerman was honored by APPA for exceptional leadership on issues of importance to public power -- particularly in his vital role as chairman
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Transmission
After successful efforts to reduce speculation from the public power utility’s power “queue” -- or waiting list for connection -- Grant PUD’s Large Power Solutions group is working to reconcile transmission capacity, in collaboration with the PUD’s Transmission Planning group, after "cleansing" the queue.
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Reliability
The Florida Municipal Power Agency recently hosted Department of Energy Deputy Secretary James Danly and Rebecca Michael, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Energy Infrastructure Security at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, at the Sand Lake Energy Center in Florida.
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Generation
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Feb. 25 announced the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing has closed a historic $26.5 billion loan package that will support two wholly owned subsidiaries of Southern Company -- Georgia Power and Alabama Power.
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Generation
According to an analysis issued on Feb. 26 by the Electric Power Research Institute, data centers could consume 9%-17% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030 -- more than double current use -- with eight states seeing much higher percentages.
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Transmission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently submitted a staff report to Congress on the North American Reliability Corporation’s Interregional Transfer Capability Study. FERC declined Congress’s invitation to recommend statutory changes in response to the ITC study.