Transmission

Plans for South Dakota-Minnesota Transmission Project Filed With Regulators

Several Upper Midwest energy companies filed plans on Sept. 29 with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to move forward with a transmission project in Minnesota and northeastern South Dakota.
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Grid Modernization

NYPA President and CEO Justin Driscoll Highlights Smart Cities Grant

New York Power Authority President and CEO Justin Driscoll recently met with Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Malik Evans to highlight NYPA’s $500,000 Smart Cities grant funding to support the purchase of smart nodes for the city’s streetlighting system.
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Electricity Markets

San Jose City Council Votes in Favor of Exploring Municipal Utility Option

The City Council of San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 3 took an initial step forward to explore the possibility of forming a municipal utility for electric service.
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Generation

Standard Power Chooses NuScale Small Modular Reactor Technology for Data Centers

Standard Power, a provider of infrastructure as a service to advanced data processing companies, recently announced plans to develop two small modular reactor-powered facilities that will together produce nearly 2 gigawatts of energy and has chosen to work with NuScale Power and ENTRA1 Energy to support Standard Power’s two projects.
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Distributed Energy Resources

TVA Proposing to Build Solar Project at Closed Coal Ash Site

The Tennessee Valley Authority is pursuing a 100-megawatt solar generation pilot project on a closed coal ash site at the Shawnee Fossil Plant near Paducah, Kentucky.
Electric Vehicles
Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles and the Utility: Opportunities and Challenges

Part three of the three-part Understanding Trends in Energy Technology Series. Hear the latest on the EV landscape, discuss the critical issues related to customer adoption, the implications for energy and demand growth, and policies and planning models for an optimized EV future.
June 3 - 5, 2025
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Energy Storage

Advanced Underground Distribution Systems

Part two of the two-part Underground Distribution Systems Series. Learn how to improve your utility’s policies, standards, and practices for planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining underground distribution and hear about current and emerging industry trends.
November 17 - 19, 2026
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Generation

CPS Energy’s Bret Colby Named as Member of Texas Advanced Nuclear Working Group

Bret Colby, Principal for Nuclear Oversight at Texas public power utility CPS Energy, has been named as a member of a Public Utility Commission of Texas Advanced Nuclear Working Group.
Generation

CPS Energy’s Bret Colby Named as Member of Texas Advanced Nuclear Working Group

Bret Colby, Principal for Nuclear Oversight at Texas public power utility CPS Energy, has been named as a member of a Public Utility Commission of Texas Advanced Nuclear Working Group.
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Energy Storage

Holden Municipal Light Department Energy Storage Project Developed With Facilitation From MMWEC

Delorean Power LLC and Massachusetts public power utility Holden Municipal Light Department on Oct. 12 announced a new battery energy storage facility.