Transmission
The House on a party-line vote on July 18 adopted the Senate-passed version of roughly $9 billion in fiscal year 2025 spending rescissions requested by President Trump in June.
Distributed Energy Resources
Austin Energy on July 16 provided details on its new Solar Insights tool, which it said is “an innovative digital feature designed to enhance the experience of residential solar customers through the City of Austin utility customer portal.”
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Lower Colorado River Authority recently delivered a mobile substation transformer to temporarily power Hunt area customers of Texas public power utility Kerrville Public Utility Board in the wake of catastrophic flooding that devastated the Hill Country region earlier this month.
Bonds and Financing
The July 4 enactment of budget reconciliation legislation has started the clock on a number of tax credit related deadlines, including potentially new guidance on the definition of “beginning of construction” for a project and implementation of foreign entity of concern (FEOC) provisions effecting
Environment
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has unveiled its new Carbon Capture, Allocation, Transportation, and Sequestration module (CCATS), which EI said will allow it to model carbon capture in the coming decades.
Community Engagement
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide over $100,000 towards their “HEROES for Zero Contest,” an initiative promoting energy conservation and education among Los Angeles youth.
Grid Modernization
Siemens and TRC Companies have teamed up to help Arizona public power utility Salt River Project replace its legacy Meter Data Management System with Siemens’ Gridscale X Meter Data Management software.
Grid Modernization
California public power utility Turlock Irrigation District has chosen OATI’s webSmartEnergy Distributed Energy Resource Management System to enable commercial load control and residential smart thermostat programs with next-generation technology, OATI reported on July 1.
The Lassen Municipal Utility District Board of Directors in late June approved a $30.1 million budget for fiscal year 2025-26 during their regular monthly meeting on June 24.
Generation
CNBC recently released a list of what it says are the 10 states in the U.S. with grids that are best positioned to power the artificial intelligence data center boom.