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Community Engagement
The Town of Estes Park and the cities of Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland in Colorado on Oct. 30 signed an extension of the organic contract that established Platte River Power Authority in 1973.
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Generation
Arizona Public Service (APS) announced plans on Oct. 30 to develop a site west of Gila Bend, Ariz., capable of adding up to 2,000 megawatts of reliable, flexible generation to the state’s energy portfolio. "The Desert Sun Power Plant will be a state-of-the-art natural gas facility designed to meet
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Grid Modernization
The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners recently approved a $195 million investment to expand LADWP’s Demand Response portfolio and create new programs that aim to increase the department’s current performance-based capacity by more than 400 percent from 80 MW to 340 MW.
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Grid Modernization
The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments program recently approved funding for various grants and scholarships.
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California Community Power (CC Power) issues a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking clean generation and energy storage projects that can meet mid-term reliability, resource adequacy and Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) goals. Additionally, CC Power is interested in a range of projects for
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Grid Modernization
Officials with JEA and Lakeland Electric –- Florida public power utilities -- on Oct. 28 provided details on pilot programs the utilities implemented to help non-residential customers and managers track and reduce energy use through interactive interval data dashboards.
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Electricity Markets
Columbia River People's Utility District recently signed a new long-term Power Sales Agreement with Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), its wholesale power provider. This agreement guarantees access to affordable Tier 1 power rates through September of 2044. "At a time when there is so much
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Salt River Project (crews returned to remote areas of the Navajo Nation to provide reliable electricity to 12 families in the Dilkon and Tuba City areas. This effort was part of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority's Mutual Aid Training 2025 program, an arm of the Light Up Navajo (LUN) initiative.
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Energy Storage
Grant County PUD Commissioners unanimously approved two, 20-year power-purchase agreements with Royal Slope LLC.
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Electricity Markets
ISO New England has begun development of a framework that will establish the grid operator as the independent reviewer of transmission owners’ asset condition projects in the region.