The Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation recently announced the addition of the City of Dover, Delaware, as an associate member.

Additional mutual aid crews arrived on Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla., adding an additional 100 crew members to the city's restoration efforts to rebuild after experiencing unprecedented damage to the City's electric system in the wake of an extreme storm that hit the city on May 10.

Fifty-four percent of Americans who do not currently own an electric vehicle are interested in purchasing one in the future. However, 64 percent cite the purchase price as a significant barrier to ownership, according to a survey.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 8 issued a request for proposals for up to 500 megawatts of demand response capacity for this summer.

Utilizing omnichannel communication systems can help ensure customers stay in the know and also help utilities respond to the many outage-related calls and emails from customers. When Hurricane Florence hit in September 2018, wreaking damage in the Carolinas, Duke Energy sent customers over 7 million messages enabled by Message Broadcast.

In a May 9 letter to the chairman and ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the American Public Power Association detailed its support of four provisions that have been submitted by committee members for consideration for inclusion in the Water Resources Development Act currently under development.