The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved S. 3518, the FLOWS Act, which would amend the Federal Power Act to remove the requirement for hydropower projects to seek Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for routine maintenance or non-substantial alterations.

Five years ago, Imperial Irrigation District (IID) relied primarily on social media to communicate outage information—without a way to reach customers directly. All that changed in 2021 when IID tapped Arcos TextPower, implementing a messaging system in two phases.

The Commission of the Northern California Power Agency on June 11 confirmed Tony Zimmer as the agency’s new General Manager.

NextEra Energy Transmission, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, and New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority on June 10 announced the energization of a 137-mile, 345-kilovolt transmission line in New Mexico.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on June 10 directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to take immediate steps to protect residential ratepayers from the costs of data center expansion.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently accepted the PJM Interconnection's proposed Expedited Interconnection Track (EIT), a temporary, standalone process to quickly advance projects of significant size to address the urgent need for more capacity resources.