Environment
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 16 issued an order denying requests to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s Power Sector Greenhouse Gas Rule for New and Existing Sources (Power Sector GHG Rule or the Final Rule), published on May 9, 2024. Litigation over the rule itself continues in the D.C
Generation
The Department of Interior on Oct. 17 announced that the Bureau of Land Management has approved the Fervo Cape Geothermal Power Project in Beaver County, Utah, which will use innovative technology to generate up to 2 gigawatts of baseload power.
Transmission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Oct. 17 issued a long-awaited order establishing a methodology for determining a just and reasonable return on equity, or profit, to be included in transmission rates.
Electricity Markets
ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc., announced on Oct. 16 that it has named Scott Jones Chief Financial Officer. He will succeed Tim Tunis, who earlier this year announced his retirement effective April 2025 after 20 years with ElectriCities.
Bills and Rates
The New York State Public Service Commission recently approved a request by the New York Power Authority to establish the Renewable Energy Access and Community Help program to provide electric bill credits for low-income households in disadvantaged communities across the state.
Reliability
Public power utilities are included among the recipients for project funding announced by the U.S. Department of Energy on Oct. 18.
Bills and Rates
Nashville, Tenn.-based public power utility NES has launched a Neighborhood Comparison tool that allows customers to compare their energy usage to similar households near them.
Reliability
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly recently announced that public power communities in the state will receive funding for energy grid resilience.
Energy Storage
California’s battery storage capacity has expanded rapidly, increasing by 3,012 megawatts in just six months to reach a total of 13,391 MW.
Transmission
A transmission project that will connect a substation in central Utah to a substation in east-central Nevada took another key step forward with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service announcing the availability of the project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement.