In June, the Bonneville Power Administration’s Olympia District teams moved wood pole structures away from the edge of a steep cliff to increase reliability.

The Southwest Power Pool on July 9 published its report on the April 26 load-shed event in Northwest Louisiana that analyzes the event, identifies the main causes that led to the need to shed load, examines how SPP responded during and after the event, and provides recommendations and improvements

APPA and several power sector trade associations on July 17 submitted a joint letter to the Environmental Protection Agency reaffirming support for a rulemaking to adopt a universal waste management standard for discarded photovoltaic solar panels.

The Environmental Protection Agency on July 17 issued a direct final rule and companion proposal to extend the compliance deadlines for owners and operators to comply with the facility evaluation report part 1 and compliance deadlines for the coal combustion residual management (CCR) unit provisions in the 2024 final Legacy CCR rule.

The House on a party-line vote on July 18 adopted the Senate-passed version of roughly $9 billion in fiscal year 2025 spending rescissions requested by President Trump in June.

Citing “significant federal uncertainty,” the New York State Public Service Commission on July 17 said it was recalibrating the timeline for offshore wind transmission development.