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Electricity Markets
How each regional transmission organization's projected electricity demand compares against both current and pending capacity.
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Electricity Markets
At its April 24, 2025, meeting, the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency Board of Directors voted to approve three additional contracts from current member municipalities seeking to continue their beneficial relationship with IMEA through 2055.
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Generation
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) recently introduced the Help Hoover Dam Act. The bill would make available roughly $45 million in stranded funds for operations, maintenance, and improvement projects at Hoover Dam.
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Insights of how public power is growing and where public power utilities are seeing growth in customers and megawatt-hour sales.
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Reliability
A new project involving the American Public Power Association, a group of APPA members and the Argonne National Laboratory focused on wildfire risk mitigation kicked off with its first meeting on April 18.
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Safety
The Florida Municipal Electric Association applauds the Florida Legislature for passing Senate Bill 1386/House Bill 857, “which installs further protections for utility workers by reclassifying and strengthening criminal penalties for those who knowingly commit assault or battery against a utility worker,” said Amy Zubaly, Executive Director, Florida Municipal Electric Association, on April 30.