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Community Engagement
Ryan Hurst, Utilities General Manager for the City of Wahoo, Nebraska, has plenty on his plate these days. Among other things, he is overseeing a transition to advanced metering infrastructure for city residents and making sure a substation upgrade project goes smoothly.
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Generation
A settlement agreement was filed on Dec. 14 in federal district court in Oregon that sets commitments made by the U.S. Government and implemented through a Memorandum of Understanding, “Columbia River Basin Restoration Initiative,” between the United States, the States of Oregon and Washington, the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama Tribes and environmental non-profit organizations.
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Considerations for communicating effectively with the public about health concerns related to radio frequency and electromagnetic field effects from utility assets.
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Reliability
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on July 24 approved reliability standards aimed at protecting grid reliability as intermittent power generation technologies increase penetration of the grid.
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Electricity Markets
ISO New England system operators used well-established procedures to balance supply and demand on the regional power system during a capacity deficiency on August 1, 2024, it said on Aug. 6.
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Reliability
The speed at which large load facilities are being built adds stress to the bulk power system not only in terms of increased load but also operationally, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation recently said.
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Community Engagement
California public power utility Truckee Donner Public Utility District held the first board meeting of the year on Jan. 15.
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Electricity Markets
A Texas judge on Feb. 23 granted a temporary restraining order in a proceeding involving the Energy Information Administration’s recently announced plan to collect data tied to the electricity consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining activity.
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Reliability
The Guam Power Authority was awarded nearly $916,885 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Underserved and Indigenous Community Microgrids Grant.
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Distributed Energy Resources
U.S. power grids remained stable on Oct. 14 during a solar eclipse that occurred that day.