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Workforce

Leadership Essentials Certificate Program

Part of the Spring Education Institute. The Leadership Essentials Certificate Program is designed to help new managers develop employees’ skills as well as their own. These skills are critical to organizational performance, employee development and retention, and leader growth.
May 4 - 7, 2026
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Reliability

Austin Energy Certifies Summer Weather Preparedness to Texas Grid Operator

Austin Energy’s power generation and transmission facilities have completed their weatherization readiness activities in preparation for the summer season, the Texas public power utility said on June 6.
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid

Utilities Adopt Various Strategies to Mitigate Against the Threat of Wildfires

The electric utility sector including public power utilities are adopting a wide variety of strategies to mitigate against the threat that wildfires pose to utility infrastructure.
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Transmission

NREL Report Examines How to Realize Maximum Value of Interregional Transmission

A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory identifies barriers within rules and operational practices that may limit the value existing interregional transmission can provide to electric consumers and identifies a suite of options that could enable greater use of and value from interregional transmission.
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Electricity Markets

SPP Files Expanded RTO Tariff to Include Western Entities

Southwest Power Pool on June 4 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission amendments to its tariff that include provisions specific to its western members.
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Reliability

Iowa’s Muscatine Power and Water Details Actions to Boost Reliability, Infrastructure

Iowa public power utility Muscatine Power and Water held its regular monthly Board of Trustees meeting on May 28, addressing several important topics that will enhance Muscatine’s utility infrastructure and service reliability.