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Reliability
The Northeast Power Coordinating Council on Jan. 3 announced the completion of its Northeast gas/electric system study and provided details on key findings from the study.
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Customer Service
Despite overbooked flights with undersized seats and frequent delays, the airline industry earns higher customer satisfaction scores than the utilities sector in the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Still, the electric industry has its share of high-flyers that are leading the way in exceeding
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Electricity Markets
Grid operators across much of the U.S. are monitoring power demand levels this week as soaring temperatures blanketed the country.
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Distributed Energy Resources
The wind industry could benefit from the use of artificial intelligence to design and deploy wind plants, according to an article in Nature Energy written by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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A number of public power utilities recently began participating in the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).
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Reliability
To aid in wildfire preparedness, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has released a publicly accessible online database of wildfire mitigation plans. The new resource offers a centralized, searchable collection of more than 400 publicly available wildfire mitigation plans developed by 170
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Generation
National Grid Ventures recently announced it will install the first commercially deployed, 100 percent hydrogen-fueled linear generator in the world at its Northport Power Plant, supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the Long Island Power Authority.
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Reliability
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment finds that much of North America is again at an elevated risk of having insufficient energy supplies to meet demand in extreme operating conditions.
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The Department of Energy should reconsider its proposed rule to increase conservation standards for distribution transformers, 47 U.S. senators said in a June 1 letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. The bipartisan letter was led by Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN).