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Transmission
A coalition of New England states jointly submitted two applications to secure federal funding to support investments in large-scale transmission and energy storage infrastructure to enhance grid reliability and resilience across the region.
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Reliability
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission announced a set of actions in response to the power outages over the weekend of April 6-7 and Xcel Energy’s deployment of a precautionary outage that impacted tens of thousands of residents.
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Environment
Arizona public power utility Salt River Project announced on April 17 that Apple has joined as a partner supporting SRP’s Resilient Water and Forest Initiative, part of a continuing effort to ensure water resiliency.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
How the Public Power Mutual Aid Network keeps improving, and why continuing to grow utility involvement is key to its success.
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Grid Modernization
As applications for artificial intelligence proliferate, how utilities can better understand the technologies available, how to use it safely, and when to keep tasks human-only.
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Grid Modernization
A Bryan Municipal Utilities advanced metering infrastructure project “has been a testament to our employees’ dedication and desire to see this project through,” said Derek Schultz, Director of Utilities for the Ohio public power utility in a recent Q&A with Public Power Current. He also detailed how the utility has maintained high levels of reliability.