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Reliability
The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) Board of Directors on March 17 approved a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement with the City of Coachella, California, establishing the Coachella Electric Financing Authority, a new partnership designed to support energy infrastructure investments that will strengthen electric service and accommodate continued growth in the City of Coachella.
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Reliability
Public power boroughs in Pennsylvania are included among the recipients of funds awarded by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to improve electric grid reliability and resiliency.
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Bonds and Financing
California public power utility Truckee Donner Public Utility District was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA).
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Reliability
At a public hearing in late February, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, officials and engineering consultants reviewed the findings of a comprehensive electrical grid study that outlines both strengths in the city’s distribution system and critical infrastructure needs, including the addition of a
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Generation
Constellation Energy and LS Power Equity Advisors on March 18 announced an agreement under which Constellation will sell a portfolio of generation assets in the PJM Interconnection to LS Power, a key step in satisfying regulatory commitments related to Constellation’s acquisition of Calpine.
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Reliability
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously approved a sweeping set of actions to strengthen and safeguard reliability of the nation’s bulk-power system.
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Generation
The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors has approved additional work associated with a major overhaul of a gas turbine generator at the El Centro Generating Station, helping ensure reliable electric service for communities across the Imperial and Coachella valleys.
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Generation
The American Public Power Association (APPA) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) on March 19 sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright to emphasize the importance of federal preference power and its central role in the mission of the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs).
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Electricity Markets
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on March 12 announced that the City of Caldwell’s municipal utility has joined the ERCOT System.
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Generation
X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology, and Talen Energy Corporation, an independent power producer, signed a Letter of Intent to assess deploying X-energy’s XE-100 small modular reactors in Pennsylvania and across the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization market.