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Workforce
A few key stats from the Center for Energy Workforce Development’s 2023 Energy Workforce Survey.
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Grid Modernization
Three public power journeys in the energy transition – including implementing energy storage solutions, finding new approaches to load management, and exploring new forms of generation.
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Community Engagement
Lessons from different public power communities that planned for and reached clean energy goals, and what’s next for their power supply planning.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Texas public power utilities Austin Energy and CPS Energy have sent lineworkers to assist with power restoration efforts in Houston after severe storms left more than a million people without power.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The City of Tallahassee, Fla., has successfully restored power to over 99% of customers who can safely receive electricity after three tornadoes ripped through town on May 10, the Florida Municipal Electric Association reported.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Northeast Public Power Association recently completed another successful Lineworker Rodeo, which took place in Hull, Mass.
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Energy Storage
A quick look at projections for energy storage development, including costs and types of long-duration technologies in demonstration.
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Electricity Markets
Google, Microsoft and Nucor Corp., a steel and steel products producer, on March 19 announced that they will work together “across the electricity ecosystem to develop new business models and aggregate their demand for advanced clean electricity technologies.”
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Electricity Markets
After a decade of service, Tom Falcone will step down from his role as CEO of the Long Island Power Authority and the Utility Debt Securitization Authority at the end of May, he said in a March 18 letter to Tracey Edwards, Chair of LIPA’s Board of Trustees, and Robert Gurman, Acting Chair of the Utility Debt Securitization Authority. The Utility Debt Securitization Authority issues triple-A-rated securitization bonds on LIPA’s behalf.
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Community Engagement
The dedication of employees at Missouri public power utility Carthage Water & Electric Plant “fundamentally changes the role of a General Manager from managing people and situations to enabling people to meet the goals they set for themselves,” says Chuck Bryant, CWEP’s General Manager.