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Community Engagement
Voters in Grand Haven, Mich., on Nov. 8 overwhelmingly voted to reject a proposed City Charter amendment that would have dissolved the city’s Grand Haven Board of Light & Power.
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Customer Service
When they started using TextPower for outage notifications, utility managers for the City of Gastonia in North Carolina could not foresee the multiple ways in which the service would grow. Gastonia signed on with TextPower about a year ago and went live with its outage notification system, SmartAlerts™, in May 2023.
grid
Grid Modernization
The Biden-Harris Administration on Nov. 14 announced up to $3.9 billion available through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships Program.
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Energy Storage
The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative recently issued a request for proposals seeking bids for the purchase of stand-alone energy storage contracts for five battery energy storage systems.
grid
Electricity Markets
The Nebraska Public Power District and the Northwest Rural Public Power District have agreed to pursue a wholesale power supply contract starting May 1, 2024, following votes by NRPPD’s and NPPD’s Board of Directors.
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Generation
Deployment of enhanced geothermal generation could be boosted by using the technology as a load-following rather than baseload system, according to an article in Nature Energy.
people
Workforce
Chris McCullion has been selected to replace Mindy Brenay as Chief Financial Officer for the Orlando Utilities Commission effective March 4, 2024.
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Electricity Markets
The North American Energy Standards Board on February 7 will hold a kick-off meeting for the development of a standardized model contract to facilitate the acquisition of distribution services from distributed energy resource aggregations.
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Transmission
The Western Area Power Administration will begin the first portion of a three-phase project on Feb. 27 to help mitigate future transmission power outages in Estes Park, Colorado, and the surrounding area, Platte River Power Authority reported on Feb. 6.
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Generation
Clark Public Utilities CEO and General Manager Lena Wittler recently announced that the utility’s current Power Manager, Steve Andersen, will transition to the role of Director of Energy Resources beginning April 1, 2024