Distributed Energy Resources
The Illinois Municipal Electric Agency, a wholesale electric supplier to 32 municipally owned utilities, started receiving 25 megawatts of energy and capacity from Big River Solar in Southern Illinois beginning June 1, 2025.
Customer Service
College Station Utilities, which serves College Station community members, has seen higher customer satisfaction since implementing text messaging. Customers benefit from the utility’s communication about outages, both planned and unplanned, through TextPower, an ARCOS company that provides mission-critical communications via text.
Electricity Markets
Electricity demand in the PJM Interconnection and ISO New England reached multiyear highs on June 23 and June 24, respectively, the Energy Information Administration said on June 27. Electricity demand increased significantly due to a heat wave that affected most of the Eastern United States the week of June 23.
Grid Modernization
Tantalus Systems on June 25 announced that the Indiana Municipal Power Agency will be deploying Tantalus’ AI-powered TRUGrid Reliability and TRUGrid Transformer analytics across all 19 of its member utilities participating in the Agency’s AMI program with Tantalus.
Workforce
The City of Glendale, California, recently announced the appointment of Scott Mellon as the new General Manager of Glendale Water and Power.
Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has accepted ISO New England’s recently proposed improvements to the economic study process, which will help identify and avoid future transmission congestion costs through targeted upgrades.
Bonds and Financing
Moody’s, a national credit rating agency, recently affirmed the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency’s long term debt as an “A1 Rating with a Stable Outlook.”
Workforce
Featuring nine in-depth, interactive, accredited courses for public power professionals in a variety of key operational areas.
Environment
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on June 30 voted unanimously to revise its regulations on the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act and issued a staff manual outlining the revised procedures.
Bonds and Financing
A provision that would have repealed statutory exceptions to the domestic content requirement for elective payment was not included in the text of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA) released by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over the weekend.