The City of Burbank, California’s Community Development Department has expanded the online permit feature for residents to easily apply for and obtain instant solar and battery storage system permits for single-family residential installations through a City partnership with Symbium Corp.

Members of the Northeast Public Power Association in Maine have received grant awards to deploy electrical grid resilience projects in Maine communities.

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.