Lee Meyerhofer has been a commissioner for Kaukauna Utilities in Wisconsin since 1995 and its president since 2005. Lee was elected to the Kaukauna City Council in 1992 and to the Wisconsin Legislature in 1998. On the Legislature, he served as the ranking member of the Energy and Utilities Committee
Transmission
The Arizona Corporation Commission on Jan. 15 voted to approve a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility for the South Mountain Transmission Project.
Generation
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has joined Constellation on a grant proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy to support the company’s efforts to seek an early site permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for one or more advanced nuclear reactors at the Nine Mile Point Clean Energy Center in Oswego, New York, Constellation reported on Jan. 15.
Distributed Energy Resources
A National Renewable Energy Laboratory study released in January finds that the potential for adding floating solar panels at reservoirs in the U.S. is significant. Reservoirs in the U.S. could host enough floating solar panels to generate up to 1,476 terawatt hours, it said.
Electric Vehicles
General Motors is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help find the ideal locations for adding EV charging stations across the U.S.
Generation
After almost two decades of relatively little change, consumption of electricity grew by 2% in the United States during 2024, “and we forecast it will continue growing at that rate in 2025 and 2026,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Jan. 15.