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Orlando Alancastro Named Vice President of Transmission for OUC

​​​​​​​Orlando Alancastro has been selected as Vice President of Transmission for Florida public power utility Orlando Utilities Commission, overseeing the planning, engineering, operations, and maintenance of OUC’s electric transmission and substations.

Submission for Mutual Aid Commendation

Mutual aid is at the heart of what public power does. At its core, it’s about neighbors helping neighbors—even if your “neighbor” is a sister utility hundreds (or thousands) of miles away.

The American Public Power Association’s Mutual Aid Commendation Program aims to recognize utilities that have answered the call for assistance and aided another utility in restoring power to its customers. Commendation nominations should be for mutual aid events in the past 12 months. Recipients will receive a letter, certificate and sample press release.

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Bills and Rates

Strategic Rate Design: Trends and Distributed Generation Impacts

Part two of the two-part Cost of Service & Rate Design Series. Review rate trends and strategies from utilities across the nation and hear how others are integrating distributed energy resources and restructuring rates.
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Bills and Rates

Cost of Service & Rate Design: Two-Part Series

This two-part virtual series will provide a foundational overview of cost of service, from basic concepts to leveraging data for decision making. Review rate trends and strategies from utilities across the nation and hear how others are integrating distributed energy resources and restructuring
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Bills and Rates

Basic Cost of Service and Key Financial Targets

Part one of the two-part Cost of Service & Rate Design Series. Learn all about cost of service, from basic concepts to leveraging data for decision making. Find out how to determine revenue requirements and key financial targets and relate them to cost of service.
Generation

Kerrville Public Utility Board Generation Project Moves to Kerrville City Council for Approval

The Kerrville Public Utility Board (KPUB) has taken a significant step forward in its power generation project, with the KPUB Board of Trustees unanimously approving two key resolutions during its March 7 special called board meeting, the Texas public power utility said.
Generation

Minnesota Regulators Rule That Certificate of Need is Required for Backup Generators at Data Center

Utility regulators in Minnesota recently ruled that a Certificate of Need is required for emergency backup generators at Amazon Data Services Inc.’s proposed data center in Becker, Minnesota.
Generation

Senators Introduce Bill Tied to Hydropower Restriction at Glen Canyon Dam

U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and John Curtis (R-Utah), recently introduced the Basin Fund Preservation Act.
Bills and Rates

IID Board Approves an Additional $10 Million for Customer Relief, Energy Savings

The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors, led by Director Karin Eugenio and Vice Chairman JB Hamby, has unanimously approved an additional $10 million investment to enhance IID’s public benefits programs, ensuring relief for vulnerable customers and long-term energy savings for all, the California public power utility said on March 4.
Energy Efficiency

Santee Cooper Launches Online Marketplace for Residential Customers

Santee Cooper on Feb. 26 said it has launched Marketplace, an online one-stop, energy-saving shop, to offer residential customers easy access to affordable, energy-efficient products, most at discounted prices or with automatic rebates.