The American Public Power Association this week released the 17th edition of its Safety Manual, which has been a key tool for public power utility workplace safety programs since 1955.

The MPUA Resource Services Corporation has been awarded a $1.1 million American Rescue Plan Act workforce training grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development, the Missouri Public Utility Alliance said on Jan. 25.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 19 directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to develop and submit reliability standards requiring internal network security monitoring for high-impact bulk electric system cyber systems and medium-impact systems with high-speed internet connections.

California community choice aggregator Peninsula Clean Energy on Jan. 24 said that it has signed contracts for energy storage, geothermal, wind and small hydropower projects.

The Lower Colorado River Authority on Jan. 24 said that it will build a new peaker power plant in Central Texas to provide an additional 190 megawatts of dispatchable power to the Texas power grid.

The Board of Trustees for Texas public power utility CPS Energy on Jan. 23 voted to approve a generation planning portfolio that includes a blend of gas, solar, wind and energy storage.