Community Engagement
Nicki Fuller, general manager and CEO of the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, has joined the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) Board of Directors.
Community Engagement
The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities on May 2 announced Nick Moreno's appointment as its first Stakeholder Engagement Manager, effective May 3, 2025.
Community Engagement
Austin’s public power utility, Austin Energy, is celebrating 130 years of service in May.
Bonds and Financing
Fitch Ratings on April 30 notified the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency that IMEA’s long-term debt was affirmed as an “AA- rating with a Stable Outlook.”
Generation
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council recently released a new initial forecast showing a range of potential electricity demand growth in the Pacific Northwest over the next two decades.
Generation
The PJM Interconnection has selected 51 projects that can come online quickly and provide more than 9,300 megawatts of reliable capacity through PJM’s Reliability Resource Initiative, it said on May 2. The projects consist of 39 uprates and 12 new construction proposals. The uprates apply to
Energy Storage
Convergent Energy and Power on May 1 said it has broken ground on a 3-MW/9-MWh utility-scale battery storage system for Massachusetts’s municipally-owned utility company West Boylston Municipal Light Plant (WBMLP).
Bills and Rates
President Trump on May 2 sent to Congress an initial proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026, beginning October 1, that would cut discretionary spending by 8 percent, including a 13 percent increase for defense spending and a 17 percent cut for non-defense programs.
Workforce
Saying that a shortage of electrical workers may constrain America’s ability to build the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and a shift to clean energy, Google on May 1 announced that it is supporting an effort to train 100,000 electrical workers and 30,000 new apprentices in the United States.
Reliability
Thanks to rapid clean energy deployment, expansion of battery storage, and strategic efforts to build up emergency reserves, California heads into summer with more resources to meet electricity demand, including the extreme heat conditions experienced in recent years, but California energy leaders are remaining vigilant about ongoing risks.