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Community Engagement
Voters in Grand Haven, Mich., on Nov. 8 overwhelmingly voted to reject a proposed City Charter amendment that would have dissolved the city’s Grand Haven Board of Light & Power.
Customer Service
When they started using TextPower for outage notifications, utility managers for the City of Gastonia in North Carolina could not foresee the multiple ways in which the service would grow. Gastonia signed on with TextPower about a year ago and went live with its outage notification system, SmartAlerts™, in May 2023.
Grid Modernization
The Biden-Harris Administration on Nov. 14 announced up to $3.9 billion available through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships Program.
Energy Storage
The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative recently issued a request for proposals seeking bids for the purchase of stand-alone energy storage contracts for five battery energy storage systems.
Electricity Markets
The Nebraska Public Power District and the Northwest Rural Public Power District have agreed to pursue a wholesale power supply contract starting May 1, 2024, following votes by NRPPD’s and NPPD’s Board of Directors.
Distributed Energy Resources
Congestion is causing a rise in wind and solar power curtailments in the California Independent System Operator region, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Generation
The city of Oberlin, Kansas, in October took delivery of two new CAT C175 3.0-megawatt engines, which marks the first delivery of equipment under the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency’s new financing program.
Electric Vehicles
Optiwatt, a San Francisco-based home energy analytics platform, recently announced a partnership with Florida public power utility JEA and the Electric Power Research Institute to help the utility plan for expected increases in energy demand with an increase in electric vehicle use in the Southeast.
Electric Vehicles
Optiwatt, a San Francisco-based home energy analytics platform, recently announced a partnership with Florida public power utility JEA and the Electric Power Research Institute to help the utility plan for expected increases in energy demand with an increase in electric vehicle use in the Southeast
Environment
The Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 13 released a final rule that sets timelines and processes for states and federal plans to implement emissions guidelines under Clean Air Act section 111(d).