The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in late December announced an agreement with Swell Energy that would give the California public power utility the ability to tap into its customers’ energy storage devices to create a “virtual power plant.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Dec. 30 released a final rule that repeals the Trump Administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule and adopts a new WOTUS definition. The agencies said that the new definition is founded on the pre-2015 WOTUS definition but is updated to reflect their broad interpretation of Supreme Court decisions.
Two suspects have been charged in attacks on substations in Washington State that occurred on Dec. 25, 2022.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently launched a project to restore prairie land and pollinator habitat on a portion of land at the site of a former nuclear power plant.
Washington D.C., December 20, 2022 – Statement from American Public Power Association President & CEO Joy Ditto APPA is beyond disappointed that funding to ramp up production of distribution transformers...
There are a number of ways in which the American Public Power Association (APPA) can help the Department of Energy successfully implement a Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program including assisting in identifying solutions as well as potential pathways for increasing information sharing with small- and medium-sized public power utilities, APPA said.