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New Bonneville Power Administration-backed bonds certified green by the Climate Bonds Standard Board will fund transmission projects that connect new carbon-free generation resources, support expanding electrification across multiple sectors of the economy and enhance overall grid reliability in the Pacific Northwest, BPA said on June 17.

The Idaho National Laboratory recently provided details on how reports it prepared for public power utility Idaho Falls Power related to its hydro generation assets could help Idaho Falls Power as it applies for federal grid resilience grants.

The U.S. Department of Energy on June 17 issued a notice of intent to fund up to $900 million to support the initial U.S. deployments of small modular reactor technologies.

Massachusetts public power utility Shrewsbury Electric & Cable Operations recently welcomed a group of Khatadin sheep back to its solar array at a landfill in Shrewsbury, Mass.

Roughly three-quarters of small and medium-sized businesses in the United States are interested in participating in a demand response program (73 percent) or electrifying currently non-electric business operations (74 percent), according to a new survey from the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative, a nonprofit organization that studies consumer and small business trends in the energy transition.