The Department of Energy on June 16 announced that seven states, three tribal nations, and the District of Columbia were selected as the second cohort to receive more than $77 million in grid resilience state and tribal formula grants.
NuScale Power reached a historic milestone in January 2023 when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its final rule certifying the company’s design for a small modular reactor.
The Omaha Public Power District Board of Directors moved a vote on a proposed near-term generation resource plan to its August meeting.
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Washington State’s Franklin PUD recently hosted high school students from the Pasco School District for a tour of the PUD’s Operations Center. The students also visited line crews out on the field.
South Carolina’s Piedmont Municipal Power Agency recently announced the appointment of Joel Ledbetter as its new general manager. He will be assuming the position after Andy Butcher’s departure at the end of June.
Clean energy microgrids offer a better and cheaper solution for protecting California communities from wildfire-related outages, compared to conventional microgrids, An international team led by research scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found.