Ormat Technologies on July 23 announced the signing of a 15-year resource adequacy purchase and sale agreement with the City of Riverside, Calif., for the 80-megawatt /320-megawatt hour Shirk Battery Energy Storage System located in Visalia, California.

Two rural Dawson Public Power District substations will be getting upgrades after the 2024 irrigation season, the Nebraska public power utility reported on July 22.

Utah public power utility Heber Power & Light and Massachusetts public power utility Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant will participate in projects tied to the Department of Energy’s American-Made Digitizing Utilities Prize.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on July 24 announced that New York State will receive U.S. Department of Energy funding for a long-duration energy storage demonstration project that will use fire-safe battery technology.

Platte River Power Authority’s board of directors approved the utility’s 2024 Integrated Resource Plan on July 25, including the recommended “optimal new carbon” portfolio that adds 760 megawatts of new renewable energy projects between now and 2030.

Oregon’s Northern Wasco County PUD has experienced dramatic growth over the last decade and various factors including additional new data center loads are expected to further drive that growth in the next few years, said Roger Kline, General Manager and CEO of the PUD.