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Lawmakers in the Senate and House recently introduced legislation that would reimburse local governments and electric cooperatives for interest expenses incurred on loans taken out to cover costs that are to be covered by disaster assistance payments from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia have developed a way to use machine learning to aid energy reduction strategies in an urban setting. In a study, Performance evaluation of deep learning architectures for load and temperature forecasting under dataset size constraints and seasonality

The Environmental Protection Agency on May 11 issued its long-awaited proposed rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the new, existing, modified, and reconstructed power plants. The rules would regulate new gas-fired combustion turbines, existing coal plants and certain large and base-loaded existing gas plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency on April 5 proposed to strengthen and update the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants.

The Council on Environmental Quality’s interim National Environmental Policy Act guidance on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change “misses the mark” and threatens the ability of the public power utilities and rural electric cooperatives to provide affordable and reliable electricity to the communities they serve, the American Public Power Association and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said.

Officials from public power utilities and American Public Power Association staff were recently briefed by Department of Energy officials on a number of key issues including supply chain challenges.

The Bonneville Power Administration recently released its updated wildfire mitigation plan. BPA noted that all four Pacific Northwest states have declared May as Wildfire Awareness Month.