The City of Ames, Iowa, a public power community, received six gold status certificates from the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy and Environment Education as part of the first annual Resilient Iowa Communities Award.

Anterix and the Lower Colorado River Authority announced on Jan. 13 that LCRA has contracted with Anterix to purchase additional 900 MHz wireless broadband licenses from Anterix that will extend LCRA’s ability to support future growth in Texas.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s open-source platform created shockwaves across stock markets at the start of the week, putting downward pressure on stock prices for a number of companies including U.S. energy companies and power producers that are increasingly focused on the growth of AI and data centers and related increases in power demand.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has named Tom Rice as Chief Financial Officer, effective January 27.

The House last week passed H.R. 471, the Fix Our Forests Act, by voice vote.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined forces with Tennessee public power utility EPB and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic polarization stabilization over a commercial network with no downtime.