In a recent interview with Public Power Current, Rory Weis, General Manager of Iowa public power utility Denison Municipal Utilities (DMU), and Electric Manager Mike Wight, detailed how the utility is responding to delays for acquiring transformers due to ongoing supply chain challenges.
LUMA Energy recently announced the launch of Puerto Rico’s federally funded Substation Modernization Initiative (SMI) with the modernization and reconstruction of the Manatí Substation in the municipality of Manatí.
The Department of Energy (DOE) should use Defense Production Act (DPA) authorities to prioritize distribution transformers, large power transformers, and other critical grid components ahead of other technologies, and it should act quickly to alleviate the most acute supply chain challenge with distribution transformers, the American Public Power Association (APPA), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), said in joint comments submitted to DOE on Nov. 30.
December 5, 2022
In a Dec. 1 letter to lawmakers, Joy Ditto, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association (APPA), says that APPA strongly supports legislation, S. 2306, which would provide a 30 percent investment tax credit (ITC) for hydropower environmental and safety improvements.
The array of technologies – and tech functions – that will be necessary to help utilities and customers transition to a cleaner electric grid.
To meet the clean energy goals set forth by the Biden administration, the U.S. will need to add an estimated 750 million solar panels, 50,000 windmills, 2,000 utility-scale battery storage systems, 32 million electric vehicles, and 380,000 public EV charging ports in the next decade. As part of