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The City Council of College Station, Texas, in December voted unanimously to approve the purchase of single and three-phase transformers.
Generation
The Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District recently finalized an agreement on a 10-year power purchase agreement for 42 megawatts of capacity and energy from CNPPID’s Johnson Lake hydro facilities.
Generation
For the first time since 1927, the City of Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities will buy its power from a new provider, the South Carolina public power utility recently reported.
Reliability
The American Public Power Association and other energy impacted trade associations on Jan. 4 sent a letter to key congressional leaders voicing their strong support of the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill’s inclusion of $1.2 billion in repurposed supplemental funding to bolster domestic transformer manufacturing and other critical grid components.
Distributed Energy Resources
Iowa public power utility Waverly Utilities has entered into an agreement with Sandhills Energy to build a four-megawatt solar generation facility that will produce an estimated five percent of the utility’s electricity.
Energy Storage
Concurrent LLC, an independent power producer and energy storage developer, recently unveiled plans for an energy storage project in Halstead, Kansas.
Electricity Markets
New polling from Data for Progress finds that a strong majority of likely voters nationwide — 68% — support having a publicly owned utility as their local utility provider.
Electricity Markets
The Lubbock, Texas, City Council and the Lubbock Power & Light Electric Utility Board recently voted to approve a list of retail electric providers that will operate in Lubbock’s competitive electric market
Reliability
Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD recently announced that its new Sky Valley Substation in Monroe, Wash., is up and running.
Reliability
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation has launched several initiatives aimed at advancing its study that will assess the interregional transfer capacity of the North American transmission grid.