Energy Efficiency
President Biden recently asked Congress to provide an additional $1.6 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program as part of a $56 billion domestic supplemental spending request.
Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has extended the compliance deadline for Order No. 2023, a final rule that reforms the Commission’s standard generator interconnection procedures and agreements.
Generation
Representatives from the Kansas public power cities of Garden City, Gardner, Lindsborg, Ottawa, and Russell toured the Dogwood power plant in Missouri on September 21.
Energy Storage
California has nearly doubled the amount of battery energy storage on its system in two years, hitting 6,000 megawatts of installed capacity, according to the California Energy Commission.
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.