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Electricity Markets
Noting that public power utilities have an “ethic of demonstrated innovation in their communities,” Scott Corwin, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association, recently detailed a wide range of cutting-edge projects that public power utilities are pursuing including the development of advanced nuclear generation and the exploration of emerging non-lithium ion long duration energy storage technologies.
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Reliability
The Federal Communications Commission on August 7 published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the docket, “Build America: Eliminating Barriers to Wireline Deployments.”
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Public power utility officials who are members of the American Public Power Association’s Mutual Aid Committee and APPA staff on March 14-15 gathered at APPA’s headquarters in Virginia to discuss and take action in a number of areas including updates to the APPA Mutual Aid Playbook.
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Transmission
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved the certificate of need for a major transmission project being developed by Missouri River Energy Services -- on behalf of Western Minnesota Municipal Power Agency -- and other utilities.
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Reliability
The U.S. Department of Energy issued seven emergency orders to mitigate the risk of blackouts in Florida as exceptionally low temperatures hit the state and were expected to persist through early this week.
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Electricity Markets
Duke Energy on Aug. 14 asked state and federal regulators for permission to combine its two electric utilities in the Carolinas.
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Energy Storage
California's battery energy storage resources now exceed 21,000 megawatts, making the state’s battery fleet one of the largest in the world.
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Generation
The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Feb. 13 approved a new rule establishing the Texas Energy Fund Outside of ERCOT Grant Program (OEGP).
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February marks Black History Month. The American Public Power Association pays tribute to the Black American leaders who, over a half-century ago, sought to establish the Utilities Board of Tuskegee (UBT).
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The electric utility sector including public power utilities are adopting a wide variety of strategies to mitigate against the threat that wildfires pose to utility infrastructure.