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Reliability
The Northeast Power Coordinating Council's 2026 Summer Reliability Assessment forecasts that the region will have an adequate supply of electricity this summer. The assessment covers New York, New England, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
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Texas-based Pedernales Electric Cooperative recently announced the appointment of Christian Powell as Chief Executive Officer, effective August 4,.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Florida public power utilities recently detailed how they are proactively taking steps to prepare for this year’s hurricane season, which began in June.
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Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently accepted the PJM Interconnection's proposed Expedited Interconnection Track (EIT), a temporary, standalone process to quickly advance projects of significant size to address the urgent need for more capacity resources.
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Generation
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on June 10 directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to take immediate steps to protect residential ratepayers from the costs of data center expansion.
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Transmission
NextEra Energy Transmission, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, and New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority on June 10 announced the energization of a 137-mile, 345-kilovolt transmission line in New Mexico.
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The Commission of the Northern California Power Agency on June 11 confirmed Tony Zimmer as the agency’s new General Manager.
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Customer Service
Five years ago, Imperial Irrigation District (IID) relied primarily on social media to communicate outage information—without a way to reach customers directly. All that changed in 2021 when IID tapped Arcos TextPower, implementing a messaging system in two phases.