Minnesota public power utility Rochester Public Utilities is launching a Bring Your Own Thermostat program to help reduce energy consumption during periods of high demand.

Legislation working its way through the Florida Legislature would substantially limit the ability of public power electric utilities to transfer revenues to cities’ general funds, which will inordinately affect rural, often economically distressed, communities that have a weaker tax base, the Florida Municipal Electric Association said on March 21.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., recently visited a Tennessee Valley Authority site that has been designated as the location for a TVA small modular reactor. Lee and Fleischmann were accompanied on the tour by Jeffrey Lyash, CEO of TVA.

Across all segments of the industry, the U.S. energy storage market installed 4.8 gigawatts of capacity in 2022, nearly equal to the combined 2020 and 2021 installed capacity of 5 GW, becoming a record year for battery storage, according to a new report from the American Clean Power Association and Wood Mackenzie.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on March 16 approved a revised cybersecurity standard that will expand supply chain risk management practices for low-impact bulk electric system cyber systems.

Customer satisfaction can be illusive. It is easy to lose and hard to gain, but a Georgia public power utility has found that texting can help improve customer relations.