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Electricity Markets
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on March 12 announced that the City of Caldwell’s municipal utility has joined the ERCOT System.
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Reliability
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously approved a sweeping set of actions to strengthen and safeguard reliability of the nation’s bulk-power system.
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Generation
The American Public Power Association (APPA) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) on March 19 sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright to emphasize the importance of federal preference power and its central role in the mission of the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs).
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Generation
X-energy Reactor Company, LLC, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology, and Talen Energy Corporation, an independent power producer, signed a Letter of Intent to assess deploying X-energy’s XE-100 small modular reactors in Pennsylvania and across the PJM Interconnection Regional Transmission Organization market.
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Community Engagement
In response to a recent guest column published in Florida’s Tampa Bay Times, Scott Corwin, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association, said in a Letter to the Editor that APPA strongly disagrees with the claim that “the private sector does better than the public sector” when it comes
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Reliability
The following is a transcript of the Nov. 24, 2025, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA's news
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Safety
The following is a transcript of the Dec. 8, 2025, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA's News

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