Transmission
The California Independent System Operator’s Board of Governors has approved an addendum to its 2022-2023 transmission plan to conditionally advance development of a 285-mile link in a transmission pathway that would deliver Idaho wind energy to California and the Southwest and enable investor-owned Idaho Power to import additional energy into its system.
Energy Storage
Coal plant sites are becoming an increasingly attractive location for utility and energy storage development companies across the U.S. to site new energy storage systems.
Environment
The Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6 approved in a 3-2 vote its final climate disclosure rule.
Electric Vehicles
The Vermont Public Power Supply has partnered with Bellawatt to build a “seamless tool that simplifies the electrification journey for customers,” VPPSA said on Feb. 21.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Florida Municipal Electric Association on Jan. 30 announced its 2023 “Restoring Communities Awards,” which recognize public power utilities for their exemplary power restoration efforts to their own communities and for providing or receiving mutual aid following significant weather events or when fellow public power communities were in need of extra assistance.
Reliability
Members of the Northeast Public Power Association in Maine have received grant awards to deploy electrical grid resilience projects in Maine communities.
Distributed Energy Resources
For the first time in its history, CleanPowerSF delivered 100% renewable electricity to all 375,000 customers on its default green service in 2023.
Generation
This month’s announcement of a power purchase agreement that would pave the way for the restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1 in Pennsylvania, a nuclear power plant unit, is the latest sign that the power sector is increasingly looking to the baseload resource for a variety of reasons including helping to meet a surge in power demand spurred by data centers.
Energy Efficiency
California community choice aggregator MCE recently released its 2022 energy efficiency annual report, which notes that its customers received over $2.35 million in rebates.
Generation
Kevin McIntyre, President Trump’s pick to become chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, on Sept. 7 underscored the point that FERC’s role does not include choosing fuels for the generation of electricity.