Oregon public power utility Springfield Utility Board recently marked a new chapter as it thanked Jeff Nelson for his decades of leadership and welcomed its new CEO and General Manager Vanessa Barbarisi.

Salt River Project and Northern Arizona University are installing new wireless moisture sensors designed by a company called Growvera to improve how wildfire risk is monitored in the Tonto National Forest. This is the first utility installation of this technology in the country.

Brookfield Asset Management has completed all initial milestones for the Fairfield Nuclear Project, as set out in its Memorandum of Understanding with Santee Cooper.

The American Public Power Association recently filed comments with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in two rulemaking dockets.

Generator interconnection queues across the U.S. are showing some signs of improvement as historical backlogs wane and the volume of newly executed interconnection agreements rises, though process timelines remain long, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reported on July 1.

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative, Deployable Energy’s demonstration reactor, Unity, successfully completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at Idaho National Laboratory, DOE reported on July 1.