Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
As wildfires continue to burn in California, the CEO-led Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council held a call on Jan. 12 to ensure that electricity providers in the state have no unmet resource needs.
Reliability
Massachusetts public power utility Shrewsbury Electric & Cable Operations in December provided an update on a project tied to its ongoing efforts to enhance the reliability and efficiency of Shrewsbury’s electrical system.
Electricity Markets
Guam Power Authority is included among the first utilities to participate in the Department of Energy’s Utility and Grid Operator Technical Assistance program, DOE said on Jan. 13.
Generation
After almost two decades of relatively little change, consumption of electricity grew by 2% in the United States during 2024, “and we forecast it will continue growing at that rate in 2025 and 2026,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Jan. 15.
Electric Vehicles
General Motors is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help find the ideal locations for adding EV charging stations across the U.S.
Distributed Energy Resources
A National Renewable Energy Laboratory study released in January finds that the potential for adding floating solar panels at reservoirs in the U.S. is significant. Reservoirs in the U.S. could host enough floating solar panels to generate up to 1,476 terawatt hours, it said.
Generation
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has joined Constellation on a grant proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy to support the company’s efforts to seek an early site permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for one or more advanced nuclear reactors at the Nine Mile Point Clean Energy Center in Oswego, New York, Constellation reported on Jan. 15.
Transmission
The Arizona Corporation Commission on Jan. 15 voted to approve a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility for the South Mountain Transmission Project.
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Lee Meyerhofer has been a commissioner for Kaukauna Utilities in Wisconsin since 1995 and its president since 2005. Lee was elected to the Kaukauna City Council in 1992 and to the Wisconsin Legislature in 1998. On the Legislature, he served as the ranking member of the Energy and Utilities Committee