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Electricity Markets
The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office on January 16 announced eight conditional commitments through its Title 17 Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment program, comprising $22.92 billion to utilities serving more than 14.78 million customers across 12 states.
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Bonds and Financing
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS on Jan. 16 released additional guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic content bonus for the clean energy production and investment tax credits.
grid
Generation
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently published a framework to develop long-term electricity load forecasts that accounts for building and transportation electrification impacts.
grid
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange on Jan. 16 released a new roadmap that can lead to shorter timelines and better outcomes for connecting clean energy resources to the distribution and sub-transmission grids, DOE said.
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Generation
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced Friday that it is leading an application for $800 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor program.
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Generation
Trinity Gas Storage LLC, an independent gas storage company, on Jan. 16 announced the start of operations of phase one at its 24 Bcf gas storage facility in East Texas.
grid
Reliability
California public power utility Imperial Irrigation District has successfully secured more than $319 million in grants for 2024.
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Generation
The Santee Cooper Board of Directors on Dec. 20 approved the planned expansion of the Rainey Generating Station as a shared resource with South Carolina-based Central Electric Power Cooperative.
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Energy Storage
The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 20 released its draft energy storage strategy and roadmap, a plan that provides strategic direction and identifies key opportunities to optimize DOE’s investment in future planning of energy storage research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects.
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Transmission
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas in December completed the 2024 Regional Transmission Plan.