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Starbucks Corp. is entering into solar and solar-plus-storage virtual power purchase agreements to support its corporate sustainability goals.
Public power utility Danville Utilities in Virginia is moving forward with a battery energy storage project designed to shave its peak charges and save the utility and its customers money. The Danville Utility Commission at its Nov. 30 meeting voted unanimously in favor of the 10.6-megawatt (MW), 23
Lincoln Electric System (LES) in Nebraska has put a 29-megawatt (MW) microgrid in service at virtually no cost.
Joy Ditto explains some of the factors causing the humanitarian, reliability, and financial crisis that stemmed from winter storm Uri in February.
Pascoag Utility District (PUD), in partnership with Agilitas Energy, in July brought Rhode Island’s first utility scale a battery storage project online.
In a recent Q&A with Public Power Current, Andy Pollard, Electric Director for the public power community of Harrisonville, Missouri, detailed how the city’s utility has maintained high levels of reliability and the key role that the Electric Department’s lineworker crew plays in ensuring reliability.
The City of Columbus, Ohio’s Department of Public Utilities recently put into operation its first-ever solar-powered microgrid.
Lawmakers should appropriate $1 billion this year for implementation of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to specifically address the supply chain crisis for electric distribution transformers, the American Public Power Association (APPA), the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), Edison Electric Institute (EEI), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Leading Builders of America (LBA), and Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), said in a Nov. 18 letter.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Nov. 17 took a number of actions addressing reliability issues tied to the growth of inverter-based resources (IBRs).
The Department of Energy (DOE) should use Defense Production Act (DPA) authorities to prioritize distribution transformers, large power transformers, and other critical grid components ahead of other technologies, and it should act quickly to alleviate the most acute supply chain challenge with distribution transformers, the American Public Power Association (APPA), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), said in joint comments submitted to DOE on Nov. 30.