grid
Electricity Markets
There are “immediate and serious challenges to the reliability of our region’s electric grid,” and the entire industry — utilities, states and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator — must work together and move faster to address them, John Bear, CEO of MISO, recently said.
grid
Electricity Markets
ISO New England on Feb. 21 filed the finalized results of its 18th Forward Capacity Auction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
grid
Safety
The Florida Municipal Electric Association recently recognized excellence in Florida public power at an awards banquet where the winners of the FMEA Safety Awards were announced.
light
Energy Efficiency
Husky Terminal, which has been a fixture at the Port of Tacoma for over forty years, recently implemented major upgrades to its onsite lighting, with assistance from Washington State public power utility Tacoma Power.
grid
Reliability
The New York Power Authority is leading a study to validate a technique that could potentially help the utility industry digitally monitor transformers to better detect problems without taking the units out of service, it said on Feb.22.
grid
Environment
The Reading Municipal Light Department on Feb. 23 announced the acceleration of its decarbonization efforts through the recent update to Policy 30 and accelerated retirement of non-carbon certificates.