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Reliability
Memphis Light, Gas and Water achieved its 2024–2025 tree-trimming goal four months ahead of schedule. The goal for the fiscal year, which runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025, was to trim 1,400 miles of trees and vegetation.
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Workforce
Platte River Power Authority recently hired Tim Blodgett to serve as chief strategy officer.
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Transmission
Dairyland Power Cooperative and GridLiance Heartland, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Transmission, LLC, have reached an agreement to jointly develop and co-own the MariBell Transmission Project, a 139-mile, 765-kilovolt/161-kV double circuit transmission line in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Electricity Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a PJM proposal that improves dispatch and accreditation of Demand Response resources in order to enhance grid reliability and resource adequacy.
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Generation
Santee Cooper has received a robust response to its initial request for expressions of interest related to the two partially constructed generating units at V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, it said on May 6.
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Generation
NRG Energy and LS Power Equity Advisors on May 12 announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NRG will acquire a portfolio of natural gas generation facilities and a commercial and industrial virtual power plant platform from LS Power in a cash and common stock transaction valued at approximately $12 billion enterprise value.
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Electricity Markets
Morningstar DBRS expects the virtual power purchase agreement market to grow substantially in the coming years, it said in a recent report.
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Reliability
The following is a transcript of the April 21, 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
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Generation
The American Public Power Association and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association on May 12 sent a letter in support of the Help Hoover Dam Act to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV).
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Reliability
In a recent interview with APPA, Jill Weiss, Utilities Director of Wisconsin public power utility Stoughton Utilities, said safety is core to the culture of the utility and also discussed how the utility has maintained high levels of reliability.