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As new types of electric loads emerge, utilities are examining how to adjust everything from connection costs to power supply and transmission charges to best accommodate new customers and the...
An annual monitoring report recently shared with the Board of Directors of Omaha Public Power District shows that OPPD earned high marks for minimizing the number of service disruptions our customers experience.
City Utilities of Springfield, Mo., has been awarded $10 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to partially fund a pipeline replacement project.
Reliability
Washington D.C., May 1, 2023 — One hundred nine of the nation’s more than 2,000 public power utilities earned the Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3®) designation from the American Public...
Reliability
Washington D.C., December 20, 2022 – Statement from American Public Power Association President & CEO Joy Ditto APPA is beyond disappointed that funding to ramp up production of distribution transformers...
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in late December announced an agreement with Swell Energy that would give the California public power utility the ability to tap into its customers’ energy storage devices to create a “virtual power plant.”
The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative has brought online a natural gas-fired fuel cell power station that will provide power to its municipal electric utility members.
ISO New England in late December filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval to treat energy storage as a transmission asset.
Across all segments of the industry, the U.S. energy storage market installed 4.8 gigawatts of capacity in 2022, nearly equal to the combined 2020 and 2021 installed capacity of 5 GW, becoming a record year for battery storage, according to a new report from the American Clean Power Association and Wood Mackenzie.
Michigan public power utility Grand Haven Board of Light & Power is performing significantly better than both state and national averages across a range of reliability areas.