Generation
Missouri-based Evergy on Oct. 21 announced it will invest in two new 705-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas plants that will be built in Kansas. The plants are expected to begin operating in 2029 and 2030.
Bills and Rates
The City of Denton, Texas, recently unveiled "Powerful Connections," an initiative that allows individuals to gift payments toward utility services -- electricity, water, and solid waste and recycling.
Distributed Energy Resources
Vermont public power utility Stowe Electric Department on Oct. 18 announced its collaboration with Slippery Slope Goats LLC and Agritech Institute for Small Farms to launch an innovative grazing pilot program designed to sustainably manage vegetation along transmission lines.
Distributed Energy Resources
A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory takes a closer look at customer tradeoffs when it comes to the use of home solar plus energy storage systems, quantifying how utility bill savings and the reliability value from mitigated power interruptions vary with reserve levels.
Transmission
A transmission project that will connect a substation in central Utah to a substation in east-central Nevada took another key step forward with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service announcing the availability of the project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement.
Energy Storage
California’s battery storage capacity has expanded rapidly, increasing by 3,012 megawatts in just six months to reach a total of 13,391 MW.