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U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) on June 15 introduced a bill, the Protecting America’s Distribution Transformer Supply Chain Act, which would prohibit the Department of Energy from moving forward on its notice of proposed rulemaking to increase conservation standards on distribution transformers over the next five years.
Across all segments of the industry, the U.S. energy storage market added 2,145 megawatt hours in the first quarter of 2023, a 26% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2022, according to a new report released June 14.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on June 15 finalized two rules intended to help improve reliability of the bulk power system against threats of extreme weather.
Staff from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation on June 15 made a presentation at FERC’s monthly meeting on the preliminary conclusions from their ongoing inquiry into bulk power system operations during the Winter Storm Elliott event in December 2022.
Clean energy microgrids offer a better and cheaper solution for protecting California communities from wildfire-related outages, compared to conventional microgrids, An international team led by research scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found.
Extreme weather events continue to pose the greatest risk to the reliability and stability of the North American bulk power system, even though the system remains highly reliable and resilient, according to the latest assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.
Clean energy microgrids can provide an opportunity to both enhance resiliency and decrease greenhouse emissions, according to a report by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials.
The Stowe Electric Department in Vermont used a Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments grant from the American Public Power Association to develop a framework for small rural utilities to evaluate the integration of microgrids into their grids.
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority recently provided an update on its efforts to introduce microgrids to the territory as the Authority continues to prioritize grid reliability and redundancy to reduce outages for its customers.
Florida public power utility Lakeland Electric is partnering with Block Energy in pursuing a pilot microgrid project, which was detailed by Cindy Clemmons, Manager of Legislative and Regulatory Relations at Lakeland Electric, in a presentation on June 30.