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The Board of Directors for California public power utility SMUD recently elected Rosanna Herber as President of the Board and Gregg Fishman as Vice President of the Board.
When the Federal Power Act passed in 1935, Congress thought it had established and enshrined a clear division of jurisdiction between the federal government and the states for the emerging...
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Joseph Wilson was named the next General Manager of Washington State’s Jefferson County PUD at the regular meeting of the PUD’s Board of Commissioners on July 15.
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Bonds and Financing
Fitch Ratings has upgraded to “AA” from “AA-“ bonds issued by the City of Bryan, Texas, on behalf of the Bryan Texas Utilities city electric system.
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Generation
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection on Jan. 30 released a final Request for Proposals seeking proposals to provide zero carbon electric power from nuclear, hydropower, solar, onshore wind and associated transmission, and/or paired and co-located energy storage systems.
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Reliability
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation on Jan. 5 said that it was monitoring impending extreme cold weather events forecast across much of the country starting over the weekend of Jan. 6-7 on the East Coast and followed by a series of powerful storms with the potential to create additional significant challenges across many states.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Nov. 20 announced the sixth Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) loan agreement for a 455 megawatt (MW) natural gas power plant in the Houston area. NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) will build the plant, which is expected to begin generating power for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) power region in 2028.
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Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a comprehensive series of reforms to the California Independent System Operator’s interconnection process, ruling that the changes will help “ensure that interconnection customers are able to interconnect to the transmission system in a reliable, efficient, transparent, and timely manner,” CAISO said on Oct. 1.
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Whether driven by a profit motive or another agenda, entities dishing out lies and deceptive messages require utilities to build strong ongoing relationships with their communities to ameliorate the damage.
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Washington State’s Pacific County PUD announced the appointment of Chris Forrest as its new General Manager.