The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on April 15 filed a preliminary Long-Term Load Forecast for the years 2026–2032.

Chris Fredericksen has been appointed as the new General Manager of Idaho Falls Power and Idaho Falls Fiber, pending City Council confirmation.

Lightshift Energy, a utility-scale energy storage developer, owner, and operator, and the Blue Ridge Power Agency (BRPA) on April 16 announced a partnership to deploy a portfolio of battery energy storage projects across Virginia in collaboration with Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC), Craig-Botetourt Electric Cooperative (CBEC), and the City of Salem Electric Department (Salem), with the potential for more BRPA projects in the future.

Oregon public power utility Eugene Water & Electric Board recently earned a Digital/Cloud Transformation Project of the Year Award from SAPinsider.

The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy on April 15 held a legislative hearing on six bills related to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), including S. 3034, the Reliable Power Act, which APPA strongly supports.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will take action by June 2026 on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) proceeding initiated by the U.S. Secretary of Energy that directs the Commission to consider potential reforms designed to ensure the timely, orderly, and equitable integration of significant electrical loads -- such as the increasing demand from data centers -- into the nation’s transmission infrastructure, it said on April 16.