The Michigan Public Service Commission on Aug. 7 approved a process for addressing requests filed under the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's Expedited Resource Addition Study, a temporary process meant to speed up the review of new electric generation projects to address resource adequacy and reliability needs in MISO’s territory in the near term.

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly the training of large-scale models that are used to power many of today’s widely used applications, is driving renewed growth in electricity demand, the Electric Power Research Institute said in releasing a new report with Epoch AI that forecasts that training a leading model could require more than 4 gigawatts of power by 2030.

The public power city of Ames, Iowa, recently received a Silver designation from the national Charging Smart program for achieving policies that facilitate the expansion of electric vehicles and EV charging infrastructure. Ames is the first community in Iowa to earn a Charging Smart designation.

The U.S. District Court in Eugene has granted the Eugene Water and Electric Board's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought under the Endangered Species Act pertaining to fish passage at EWEB’s Trail Bridge Dam.

Joule Capital Partners, Caterpillar Inc. and Wheeler Machinery Co. on Aug. 7 announced an agreement to power Joule’s High Performance Compute Data Center Campus in Utah.

B2U Storage Solutions, a provider of large-scale repurposed battery energy storage systems, has started construction on its third grid storage facility and first in the state of Texas.