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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s plan to issue data requests to generator owners requiring information about their generating units’ winterization efforts and performance during extreme cold weather events.

Avangrid has acquired a state-of-the-art mobile transformer that can be quickly deployed “and enables the company to resolve outages in the event of a damaged transformer in a couple months compared to the two-year lead time for a replacement transformer,” it said on May 21.

The American Public Gas Association presented Texas public power utility CPS Energy with the APGA System Operational Achievement Recognition for excellence in operating its natural gas utility.

Missouri public power utility Hannibal Board of Public Works has implemented a unique social media campaign designed to communicate the value of public power to its customers, with the utility’s employees playing a direct and key role in the campaign. The monthly social media campaign, which is

U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and other House Democrats are urging the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to finalize rules that will enable not-for-profit entities like community-owned utilities to benefit from the clean energy tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act.