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The President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) recently released a report that offers a set of recommendations aimed at addressing the country’s ongoing power transformer shortage.

The effectiveness of a fire-resistant wrap on Bonneville Power Administration wood poles was exhibited during the Wacoa-Swawilla Fire in late July, when a large fire broke out on the Colville Reservation near Keller, Wash.

Public power utility Idaho Falls Power on Sept. 16 announced that it is negotiating a power purchase agreement with Aalo Atomics, a nuclear engineering company developing small-scale, factory-built modular nuclear reactors.

Moody’s Ratings and the Kroll Bond Rating Agency have both upgraded their ratings on the New York Power Authority’s revenue bonds.

The California Independent System Operator will soon unveil a new Grid Resource Interconnection Portal and a Points of Interconnection Heatmap.

If all the high-voltage transmission currently under construction and in advanced stages of permitting is built by 2030 in the Western U.S. -- enabling the construction of new renewable energy projects -- carbon dioxide emissions in the Western United States would drop by 73 percent compared to 2005, a new report issued by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found.

Power outages, wildfires, rooftop solar systems, and demand response programs create a need for utilities to communicate with customers quickly and clearly. Utilizing omnichannel communication systems can help ensure customers stay in the know and also help utilities respond to the many outage-related calls and emails from customers.

Chelan PUD commissioners will spend the next two months studying a proposed two-year extension of the annual rate increases that started with the 2020-2024 strategic plan, the Washington State-based PUD said on Sept. 17.

The North American Energy Standards Board on Sept. 12 announced its completion of a recommendation for a new standard contract, drafted at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, which NAESB said will increase efficiency and consistency in transactions between utilities and distributed energy resource aggregators in the procurement of distribution services.