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Community Engagement
Residents in Pueblo, Colorado, will vote on May 5 on a measure that would allow the city to leave investor-owned Black Hills Energy and form a public power utility.
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Distributed Energy Resources
The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in New York is rolling out a new, two-pronged community solar program.
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Environment
This map shows the differences in how each state and territory has set either a goal or a standard to reduce carbon emissions, where public power is included, and where some individual goals go beyond state mandates.
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Generation
In a first-of-its-kind project, the Northern California Power Agency is preparing to convert a power plant so hydrogen can be blended with natural gas for its fuel.
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Energy Storage
PSEG Long Island LLC, on behalf of the Long Island Power Authority, is planning to issue a request for proposals for bulk energy storage resources that will be interconnected to the Long Island electric grid.
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Grid Modernization
Algona Municipal Utilities in Iowa, working with Iowa State University, has used a grant from the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program to develop a tool to help utilities make better use of the flood of data available from advanced metering infrastructure.
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Distributed Energy Resources
Key factors driving renewable energy development last year — strong demand, declining costs, gains in battery storage technology and grid operators’ growing ability to handle renewables— are poised to continue into 2019, according to consulting firm Deloitte.
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Community Engagement
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, forming a public power utility was a necessity for many communities. As larger corporations began establishing electric services in bigger cities, where the return on investment was most certain, small- and medium-sized communities across the country were
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Community Engagement
While they might not be as high-profile as the Wall Street mergers and acquisitions that make the headlines — or provide fodder for binge-worthy legal dramas on streaming services — Main Street has had its share of takeover attempts for community-owned electric utilities run by the local (or
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Community Engagement