grid
Community Engagement
The Florida Municipal Electric Association recently launched its Florida Public Powercast.
transmission towers
Transmission
The PJM Board of Managers on Feb. 12 approved multiple transmission projects to reinforce the reliability of the electric grid.
coal plant
Generation
The U.S. Secretary of War, in coordination with the U.S. Secretary of Energy, will seek to procure power from the U.S. coal generation fleet by approving long-term power purchase agreements, or entering into any similar contractual agreements, with coal-fired energy production facilities to serve Department of War installations or other mission-critical facilities under a Feb. 11 Executive Order signed by President Trump.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
This suite of resource documents, developed by APPA's Mutual Aid Committee, is for public power utilities that responded to a call for mutual aid. Utilities can use this set of...
nuke
Generation
U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on Feb. 10 introduced the Accelerating Reliable Capacity (ARC) Act, which would authorize federal backstop authority to help utilities and reactor operators cover cost overruns of advanced nuclear reactor projects.
nuke
Generation
NuScale Power on Feb. 12 said that it will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to utilize an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled nuclear design framework for a 12-NuScale Power Module™ (NPM) configuration "to strategically explore how fuel could be even more efficiently and effectively managed across multiple reactors at a single site."