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Environment
The Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 28 issued its proposal to approve interstate transport state implementation plan (SIP) submissions from eight states -- Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, and Tennessee -- for the 2015 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS).
Aerial view of data center in Centralia, Washington
Generation
A look at how and where data centers are affecting the capacity landscape and what public power is doing in the face of these new large loads.
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Grid Modernization
Coldwater Board of Public Utilities, a Michigan public power utility, has deployed artificial intelligence to predict and get ahead of grid outages. In an interview with APPA, CBPU Utility Director Paul Jakubczak outlined how AI is allowing the utility prevent service outages, advance grid
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
While impacted public power utilities, investor-owned electric companies and electric cooperatives have already restored power to nearly 750,000 customers as of 9:00 a.m. (ET) on Jan. 29 in the wake of Winter Storm Fern, work continues around-the-clock, especially in the communities that saw between 1 and 2 inches of destructive ice accumulations.
Newly installed Missouri River Energy Services transmission lines
Grid Modernization
What opportunities and strategies public power utilities are finding work to overcome interconnection delays, changing market conditions, and regulatory uncertainty for their infrastructure projects.
WASHINGTON (January 29, 2026) – Winter Storm Fern brought heavy snow and damaging ice from the Southwest through the Mid-Atlantic as forecasted. The electric power industry mobilized quickly ahead of...