A group of federal lawmakers from Florida on June 10 sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in which they highlight “the dangerous supply chain shortages affecting Florida’s electric cooperatives and municipalities.”

Now more than ever it is crucial for public power utilities “to share our expertise, our best practices, our best thinking as we collaborate on solutions” to solving new challenges, said Jeff Lyash, President and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, on June 14 in a speech at the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) 2022 National Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

There is still the potential for as much as 3.5 terawatts (TW) of 10-hour energy pumped storage hydropower (PSH) in the United States, according to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Traditional resource adequacy tools are not sufficient to ensure reliability in a rapidly changing electric power system, according to a new report from the National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI), the research arm of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is forecasting that U.S. natural gas spot prices will increase again in June and then remain high through the rest of 2022.