The National Forest Foundation and Salt River Project recently announced a new partnership that will help reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire across the Salt and Verde River watersheds in Arizona “and allow SRP to continue providing an affordable and reliable water supply for the Phoenix metropolitan area,” SRP said.

A regional utility collaboration in Northern Colorado recently calculated results for 2023, reporting that about 1,700 homes and 500 businesses collectively reduced carbon emissions by more than 6,800 tons through various programs and initiatives, based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s emission rates for the Rocky Mountain region.

Members of Snohomish County PUD’s substation department recently participated in a five-day training course.

A group of public power communities in Colorado and the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska recently filed a complaint against investor-owned Public Service Company of Colorado at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission saying that they should not have to be on the hook for costs associated with a Public Service Company of Colorado transmission project.

There are “immediate and serious challenges to the reliability of our region’s electric grid,” and the entire industry — utilities, states and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator — must work together and move faster to address them, John Bear, CEO of MISO, recently said.

ISO New England on Feb. 21 filed the finalized results of its 18th Forward Capacity Auction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.