Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) recently introduced the Help Hoover Dam Act. The bill would make available roughly $45 million in stranded funds for operations, maintenance, and improvement projects at Hoover Dam.
Insights of how public power is growing and where public power utilities are seeing growth in customers and megawatt-hour sales.
A new project involving the American Public Power Association, a group of APPA members and the Argonne National Laboratory focused on wildfire risk mitigation kicked off with its first meeting on April 18.
The Florida Municipal Electric Association applauds the Florida Legislature for passing Senate Bill 1386/House Bill 857, “which installs further protections for utility workers by reclassifying and strengthening criminal penalties for those who knowingly commit assault or battery against a utility worker,” said Amy Zubaly, Executive Director, Florida Municipal Electric Association, on April 30.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the release of an additional $401.5 million in Fiscal Year 2025 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on April 30 held a hearing on 14 bills related to grid reliability.