Generation
The Louisiana Public Service Commission recently approved an agreement that paves the way for Entergy Louisiana to move forward with major infrastructure investments tied to Meta’s new data center in Richland Parish, La.
Reliability
The Florida Municipal Power Association recently held a substation roundtable that tackled a number of topics. Specific topics discussed at the roundtable were fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR), static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), human performance indicators, and substation robotics.
Generation
Ormat Technologies on Aug. 25 announced that it signed a 25-year extension to its existing power purchase agreement with the Southern California Public Power Authority for 52 megawatts from the Heber 1 geothermal facility.
Generation
The JEA Board of Directors voted unanimously on Aug. 26 to approve a plan for the utility to build a combined cycle natural gas facility at the former St. Johns River Power Park site.
Electricity Markets
The Midcontinent ISO on Aug. 26 shared the list of applications submitted to date for the Expedited Resource Addition Study, which includes 47 projects across 12 states, representing more than 26,500 megawatts of proposed new capacity.
Generation
Silicon Ranch will partner with Columbia-based Central Electric Power Cooperative to build a 100-megawatt solar farm that will support Meta’s first data center in South Carolina. Silicon Ranch will fund, build, own and operate the facility in coordination with Santee Cooper.
Public power utilities face growing expectations to deliver on energy efficiency, customer satisfaction, and community resilience — often with limited internal resources.
Energy Efficiency
These days, energy sector headlines involving artificial intelligence are focused on how utilities can meet the significant power demand of data centers, but perhaps lost in the shuffle is how AI is being applied to the building sector to boost energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
Community Engagement
ElectriCities of North Carolina Inc. recently presented 23 communities with Public Power Awards of Excellence at the 2025 ElectriCities Annual Conference held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This represents a record number of communities recognized for excellence, it said on Aug. 26.
Workforce
Electric Cities of Georgia hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new ECG Training Institute location on August 27 in the Indian Springs Business Park in Forsyth, Georgia.