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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on April 20 announced the completion of the first solar-plus-storage project by a municipality on Long Island, now operating in the Town of East Hampton.
In a May 3 letter to Patricia Poppe, CEO of California investor-owned utility Pacific Gas & Electric, San Francisco officials including Dennis Herrera, General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, urged the utility to reconsider its position related to the city’s plan to buy PG&E’s grid assets, which would allow the city to become responsible for all electric distribution service within San Francisco’s boundaries.
The Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee released its 2023 Northwest Regional Forecast on May 4, which projects a 20 percent increase in load over the next five years. This equates to roughly 4,000 average megawatts.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore on May 8 signed into law a bill that establishes a 3,000-megawatt target for energy storage and requires the Maryland Public Service Commission to develop a cost-effective procurement program. The measure, H.B. 910, calls for the PSC to establish targets for the cost
EarthBridge Energy has acquired acreage in West Texas for an energy storage project the Houston based company plans to develop.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utility Service on May 16 issued a notice of funding opportunity for the Powering Affordable Clean Energy forgivable loan program. To be invited to submit a PACE loan application, applicants must first submit a Letter of Interest. LOIs can be submitted
Efficiency standards for distribution transformers proposed by the Department of Energy would worsen current distribution transformer supply shortages and, to the extent that they are even feasible, would impose significant costs on consumers, the American Public Power Association said.
Eleven journeyman teams and 15 individual apprentices won awards at the American Public Power Association’s twenty-first annual Public Power Lineworkers Rodeo, held March 31-April 1, in Kansas City, Kansas.
More than 60 House members on April 3 urged Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to withdraw the Department of Energy’s proposed rule to increase conservation standards for distribution transformers.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on March 29 approved the first phase of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s project to design a new solar-powered microgrid system for the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, located east of the main island.