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Customer Service
Missouri River Energy Services recently provided details on a Residential Customer Satisfaction Study conducted during the fall of 2025. MRES partnered with GreatBlue Research to conduct the study.
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Transmission
An estimated $282 million in power transmission reliability investments are on the horizon through 2029, according to the latest update of ISO New England’s Regional System Plan Project List.
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Generation
The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects U.S. hydropower generation to increase by 5% in 2026 but remain 1.8% below the 10-year average following snow drought conditions in some states.
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Workforce
On April 9, Seattle City Light welcomed Rob Santoff as its Interim General Manager and CEO.
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Generation
Williams on April 14 marked the official start of construction on the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project with a groundbreaking ceremony at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, N.Y., joined by federal and state officials, labor leaders and project partners.
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Generation
The New York Power Authority has awarded ANDRITZ a contract to supply five new generator stators for the Robert Moses Power Plant.
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Community Engagement
On April 13, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein and lineworkers from some of the state’s energy providers joined forces to celebrate North Carolina Lineworker Appreciation Day.
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Generation
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will take action by June 2026 on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) proceeding initiated by the U.S. Secretary of Energy that directs the Commission to consider potential reforms designed to ensure the timely, orderly, and equitable integration of significant electrical loads -- such as the increasing demand from data centers -- into the nation’s transmission infrastructure, it said on April 16.
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Reliability
The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on April 15 held a legislative hearing on six bills related to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), including S. 3034, the Reliable Power Act, which APPA strongly supports.
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Customer Service
Oregon public power utility Eugene Water & Electric Board recently earned a Digital/Cloud Transformation Project of the Year Award from SAPinsider.