U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, vice-chair and chair of the National Energy Dominance Council respectively, on Jan. 16 joined Mid-Atlantic governors urging the PJM Interconnection “to temporarily overhaul its market rules to strengthen grid reliability and reduce electricity costs for American families and businesses by building more than $15 billion of reliable baseload power generation,” the Department of Energy said.

The U.S. Department of Energy has begun notifying American Public Power Association members of new Rural and Municipal Utility Cyber Assistance Program funding.

The Long Island Power Authority CEO Carrie Meek Gallagher and Suffolk County, N.Y., Executive Ed Romaine announced a new partnership to evaluate the potential for large-scale solar energy development across major industrial areas in Suffolk County.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted Empire Offshore Wind LLC a preliminary injunction that allows construction activities to resume on the Outer Continental Shelf for the Empire Wind project.

The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has executed renewed electric “Flex Rate Agreements” with two regional manufacturers, providing them with slightly lower electric rates in exchange for continued economic development investments and stable workforce numbers, the New York public power utility said on Jan. 8.

Officials with the Imperial Irrigation District and the City of Indio, Calif., on Jan. 6 gathered on to break ground on the first of four major energy infrastructure projects that will collectively provide enough power to energize 16,000 single-family homes worth of power in the City of Indio. The