ArcLight Capital Partners and Elevate Renewables on May 29 announced a battery storage infrastructure project at the Arthur Kill Power Station in Staten Island, N.Y. The 15 MW/60 MWh distribution-level project will help provide more renewable power by replacing existing generation planned to retire in 2025.

Nebraska public power utility Omaha Public Power District on June 6 will host the first of two pilot community resource fairs. The fairs are designed to be a one-stop shop for customers where they can learn about the community services available to them. Customers will be able to visit a variety of informational stations, including OPPD’s.

The White House on May 29 announced the creation of a Nuclear Power Project Management and Delivery working group to help identify opportunities to proactively mitigate sources of cost and schedule overrun risk.

California public power utility Alameda Municipal Power announced the departure of General Manager Nicolas Procos to pursue a new opportunity after nearly seven years with the city.

Utilizing omnichannel communication systems can help ensure customers stay in the know and also help utilities respond to the many outage-related calls and emails from customers. When Hurricane Florence hit in September 2018, wreaking damage in the Carolinas, Duke Energy sent customers over 7 million messages enabled by Message Broadcast.

Oregon utility Portland General Electric on May 28 said it signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Grid United and ALLETE, Inc. in the development of the North Plains Connector, an approximately 415-mile high-voltage direct-current transmission line to be constructed with endpoints near Bismarck, North Dakota and Colstrip, Montana.