Lincoln Electric System customers have reduced the community’s net annual energy consumption by 147,000 megawatt-hours, the equivalent of the annual energy consumption of more than 15,000 homes, over 15 years through LES’ Sustainable Energy Program, the Nebraska public power utility recently said.

WPPI Energy is readying itself for the future with key changes to its leadership team, it said on Feb. 14.

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Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren, is planning for 1,500 MW of new nuclear energy generation by 2045, it said on Feb. 14. “Nuclear operates regardless of weather and can provide a clean, steady supply of energy that customers will need in the future,” it said in detailing an updated generation

A bill proposed in the Rhode Island General Assembly in January calls for the creation of a special legislative commission to study public ownership of utilities in the state.

After more than half a century of service, two of the hydroelectric pump-turbine units at the Grand River Dam Authority Salina Pumped Storage Project are scheduled for upgrades and modernization.