Generation
This month’s announcement of a power purchase agreement that would pave the way for the restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1 in Pennsylvania, a nuclear power plant unit, is the latest sign that the power sector is increasingly looking to the baseload resource for a variety of reasons including helping to meet a surge in power demand spurred by data centers.
Distributed Energy Resources
On Sept. 24, Origis Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority announced a power purchase agreement to expand their solar and storage portfolio in Mississippi.
Workforce
Alameda City Manager Jennifer Ott has appointed Tim Haines as the General Manager of California public power utility Alameda Municipal Power.
Grid Modernization
Texas public power utility CPS Energy is part of the newly formed Total Grid Orchestration Alliance, which will focus on addressing critical energy transition issues facing utilities.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Public power utility crews from various states have deployed to Florida and Georgia in advance of the arrival of Tropical Storm Helene, which is expected to make landfall as a hurricane on Thursday.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Santee Cooper team members are making preparations for the anticipated effects Tropical Storm Helene may have on South Carolina-based Santee Cooper’s service territory, the state-owned utility said on Sept. 25.
Distributed Energy Resources
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Kansas Director Christy Davis on Sept. 25 announced that USDA Rural Development is moving forward in the awards process with KPP Energy and new clean energy projects from seven other applicants through the Powering Affordable Clean Energy program.
Generation
A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory details the continued growth of hybrid power plants in the U.S.
Reliability
The Public Utility Commission of Texas on Sept. 26 unanimously approved a transmission plan to meet the future electricity needs of the Permian Basin Region.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on Thursday night as a Category 4 system, with more than one million customers without power in the state as of Friday morning. PowerOutage.us reported on Friday morning that almost 1.2 million customers were without power in Florida. PowerOutage.us is an