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Energy Storage
The U.S. energy storage industry installed 9.7 gigawatt-hours of new capacity in the first quarter of 2026, the strongest first quarter in the sector’s history.
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Generation
The Lower Colorado River Authority recently approved its largest investment plan to date to help Texas keep pace with its continued growth.
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Generation
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on May 21 proposed sweeping reforms to its blanket permitting process for natural gas facilities, under which companies may construct certain facilities without case-specific authorization from the Commission.
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Generation
Grant County PUD staff members on May 12 delivered a crash course on “Enhanced Geothermal” energy to familiarize PUD commissioners with that energy source. The high-level course will help commissioners decide whether to join Chelan and Douglas PUDs in their ongoing effort to explore the feasibility
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Transmission
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity issued a Presidential Permit authorizing Basin Electric Power Cooperative to construct, operate, and maintain two new 230 kilovolt electric transmission lines extending from existing substations in North Dakota to the Canadian border.
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Community Engagement
The electric utility for the City of Waterloo, Illinois, was awarded the Illinois Electric Municipal Agency’s 2026 System Achievement Award in recognition of its utility employees’ exemplary skills, dedication, and vision in meeting the electrical demands of their growing city.
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Generation
The state of advanced nuclear technologies and what it means for public power planning in the near future.
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Reliability
With a central Massachusetts territory that’s heavily wooded, Littleton Electric Light and Water Department (LELWD) needed to find ways to ensure that storms wouldn’t cause outages when trees fell on overhead cables.
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Reliability
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Electricity Markets
One of the ways in which Energy New England provides value to its members when it comes to power supply portfolio management is that the joint action agency avoids a cookie cutter approach, noted John Tzimorangas, President and CEO of Energy New England, in a recent interview with the American Public Power Association.