EDP Renewables North America LLC and Salt River Project on June 9 celebrated the completion of Flatland Energy Storage, a 200 megawatt/800 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system in Coolidge, Arizona.

The PJM Interconnection has issued a Hot Weather Alert for June 11–12 for the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions ahead of expected 90-degree weather.

The New York Independent System Operator reported that New York set a new record for solar generation on June 3.

With a central Massachusetts territory that’s heavily wooded, Littleton Electric Light and Water Department (LELWD) needed to find ways to ensure that storms wouldn’t cause outages when trees fell on overhead cables. The utility has switched to covered cable and today, about 90% to 95% of its distribution system is covered cable.