Electricity Markets
At a meeting held during its annual conference in Palm Beach, the Florida Municipal Electric Association elected a new slate of officers to preside over the organization’s board of directors.
Electricity Markets
The Board of Trustees of the Long Island Power Authority announced John Rhodes’s appointment as LIPA’s Acting CEO, effective immediately, LIPA said on March 27.
Bonds and Financing
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission, a North Carolina public power utility, recently received national recognition for financial reporting with two awards from the Government Finance Officers Association.
Electricity Markets
When it comes to discussions around the idea of further interconnecting the ERCOT grid to other grids outside of ERCOT, “a lot of times economics are not included in the core elements of the conversation,” said Pablo Vegas, President and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, on Feb. 27.
Electricity Markets
How the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is developing new policies to meet the technical and structural demands presented by load growth.
At a meeting held during its annual conference, the Florida Municipal Electric Association on July 19 elected a new slate of officers to preside over the organization’s board of directors.
The Lower Colorado River Authority on Jan. 24 said that it will build a new peaker power plant in Central Texas to provide an additional 190 megawatts of dispatchable power to the Texas power grid.
Bills and Rates
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed a number of state agencies to, among other things, implement a comprehensive analysis of how tariffs "will increase costs for electricity, natural gas, heating fuels and other essential energy sources across the state."
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Nov. 17 adopted a five-year, statewide, $1 billion transportation electrification program.
Reliability
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on April 30 held a hearing on 14 bills related to grid reliability.