The U.S. Forest Service on July 10 published a final rule related to vegetation management on National Forest System (NFS) lands within rights-of-ways for electric transmission and distribution facilities.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29 finalized several changes to the regulations for coal combustion residuals, known as CCR or coal ash.
Florida public power utility JEA, the City of Jacksonville and the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) on July 30 announced a settlement of all disputed issues relating to the new Units 3 and 4 of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, a nuclear power generating facility in Georgia, and an amended and restated power purchase agreement.
The City of Boulder and investor-owned Xcel Energy announced on July 28 they have reached a potential settlement that, if approved by the City Council and Boulder voters, would suspend the city’s decade-long municipalization effort.
A new Mason PUD 3 substation in southeast Mason County, Wash., formally dedicated in July will help the PUD better serve the growing appetite for power in southeast Mason County, beginning with commercial and residential activity for the Squaxin Island Tribe in Washington State.
A total of 121 U.S. coal-fired power plants were repurposed to burn other types of fuels between 2011 and 2019, the Energy Information Administration reported.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
How public power, and the electric industry as a whole, have safely responded to major events and provided mutual aid in the era of COVID-19.
Electric Vehicles
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The Tennessee Valley Authority began allowing the local utilities it serves to generate up to 5% of energy from distributed resources, and public power utilities weigh in on what this new flexibility means for their customers.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) on Aug. 26 announced the start of construction on a large-scale, 20-megawatt (MW) energy battery storage project in Northern New York, one of the largest such projects in the nation.