Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD recently announced that its new Sky Valley Substation in Monroe, Wash., is up and running.

The Lubbock, Texas, City Council and the Lubbock Power & Light Electric Utility Board recently voted to approve a list of retail electric providers that will operate in Lubbock’s competitive electric market

New polling from Data for Progress finds that a strong majority of likely voters nationwide — 68% — support having a publicly owned utility as their local utility provider.

Concurrent LLC, an independent power producer and energy storage developer, recently unveiled plans for an energy storage project in Halstead, Kansas.

Iowa public power utility Waverly Utilities has entered into an agreement with Sandhills Energy to build a four-megawatt solar generation facility that will produce an estimated five percent of the utility’s electricity.

California has nearly doubled the amount of battery energy storage on its system in two years, hitting 6,000 megawatts of installed capacity, according to the California Energy Commission.