Community Engagement
Texas public power utility Kerrville Public Utility Board on July 16 announced that Assistant General Manager Amy Dozier has been named the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Service Award by the Texas Public Power Association.
Workforce
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power recently received the 2025 Veterans Employer of the Year Award in the Government/Public Sector category by the California Employer Advisory Council (CEAC).
Electricity Markets
President Trump on July 17 nominated David LaCerte to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of a term expiring June 30, 2026.
Generation
Talen Energy on July 17 announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire Caithness Energy’s Moxie Freedom Energy Center in Pennsylvania and Caithness Energy and BlackRock’s Guernsey Power Station in Ohio, both combined-cycle gas-fired plants located within the PJM Interconnection power market.
Customer Service
College Station Utilities, which serves College Station community members, has seen higher customer satisfaction since implementing text messaging. Customers benefit from the utility’s communication about outages, both planned and unplanned, through TextPower, an ARCOS company that provides mission-critical communications via text.
Electricity Markets
The American Public Power Association on July 7 submitted comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s June 4-5, 2025, technical conference addressing resource adequacy challenges in Regional Transmission Organization and Independent System Operator regions. In its comments, APPA notes
Generation
Missouri River Energy Services along with demolition contractor Veit & Company this month began the demolition of the closed Hubbard Feed Mill located next to the existing power plant in Watertown, South Dakota.
Distributed Energy Resources
Construction is now underway for the installation of solar panels on the carport and roof of the new Shrewsbury Police Station, Massachusetts public power utility Shrewsbury Electric and Cable Operations said on July 2.
Reliability
Since launching its drone inspection program in July 2024, the City of Loveland Utilities in Colorado has seen outstanding results from the program as it strives to deliver safer, faster and more reliable service.
Generation
The Idaho National Laboratory and Microsoft have announced a collaboration to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to streamline the nuclear permitting and licensing application process.