Staff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Aug. 26 offered recommendations to help users, owners and operators of the bulk electric system improve compliance with mandatory Critical Infrastructure Protection reliability standards and overall cybersecurity postures.

In a recent Q&A with the American Public Power Association, Tom McKee, electric utility director for the city of Cartersville, Ga., a public power community, provided details on the city’s advanced metering infrastructure project and discussed the utility’s efforts to maintain high levels of reliability.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 30 published in the Federal Register a final rule related to stationary combustion engine electronic reporting.

Arevon Energy hosted a groundbreaking event on Aug. 21 to celebrate the start of construction on the company’s Ratts 1 Solar Project in Indiana.

Washington State’s Grant County PUD has 75 applications for new and expanding power service from large load customers in a queue maintained by the PUD’s Large Power Solutions team.

Chelan PUD’s North Shore substation is now serving customers, “providing more flexibility and reliability for years to come in the growing communities of Chelan and Manson,” the PUD said on Sept. 3.