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How funding from the bipartisan infrastructure act and the Inflation Reduction Act will support different aspects of energy technology development and adoption – from generation to end use.
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To meet the clean energy goals set forth by the Biden administration, the U.S. will need to add an estimated 750 million solar panels, 50,000 windmills, 2,000 utility-scale battery storage systems, 32 million electric vehicles, and 380,000 public EV charging ports in the next decade. As part of
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The array of technologies – and tech functions – that will be necessary to help utilities and customers transition to a cleaner electric grid.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) should use Defense Production Act (DPA) authorities to prioritize distribution transformers, large power transformers, and other critical grid components ahead of other technologies, and it should act quickly to alleviate the most acute supply chain challenge with distribution transformers, the American Public Power Association (APPA), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), said in joint comments submitted to DOE on Nov. 30.
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LUMA Energy recently announced the launch of Puerto Rico’s federally funded Substation Modernization Initiative (SMI) with the modernization and reconstruction of the Manatí Substation in the municipality of Manatí.
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In a recent interview with Public Power Current, Rory Weis, General Manager of Iowa public power utility Denison Municipal Utilities (DMU), and Electric Manager Mike Wight, detailed how the utility is responding to delays for acquiring transformers due to ongoing supply chain challenges.
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The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) has retired its last coal-fired power plant, which the public power utility said makes it the largest utility in Michigan to generate coal-free power by 2022.
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A quick look at advanced meter deployments by type of utility over the past decade.
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The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority is soliciting proposals for the following: PR-01-23 Pad Mounted Liquid Filled Transformers Equipment STX and STT Procurement Documents pertaining to the proposal will be emailed. If interested in receiving a proposal package please email Nicole Aubain or
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Massachusetts public power utility Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant (AMLP) has been recognized by the state of Massachusetts for its decarbonization and clean energy efforts.