TerraPower, a company founded by Bill Gates, has submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the NatriumTM reactor1 demonstration project. The Natrium technology is an advanced nuclear design featuring a sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system.

Public power utilities are among the 2024 recipients of ENERGY STAR awards. The ENERGY STAR program is administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and award recipients include the Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency and its 17 member municipal utilities, Salt River Project, Tennessee Valley Authority and Lansing Board of Water & Light.

Utilities and communities across the U.S. are pursuing solar projects located at landfill sites. Landfill sites offer a number of potential advantages when it comes to solar projects including that they typically have good sun exposure.

The following is a transcript of the March 24, 2024, episode of Public Power Now. Learn more about subscribing to Public Power Now at Publicpower.org/Podcasts. Some quotes may have been edited for clarity. Paul Ciampoli Welcome to the latest episode of Public Power Now. I'm Paul Ciampoli, APPA's

A team of experts from the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with faculty at the University of Maryland and University of Utah, have found a way to use artificial intelligence to analyze a household’s passive design characteristics and predict its energy expenses with more than 74 percent

The City Council for the public power community of Pineville, N.C., recently approved a plan for the construction of a new electric substation to serve new electric loads.