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Grid Modernization
Coldwater Board of Public Utilities, a Michigan public power utility, has deployed artificial intelligence to predict and get ahead of grid outages. In an interview with APPA, CBPU Utility Director Paul Jakubczak outlined how AI is allowing the utility prevent service outages, advance grid
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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
While impacted public power utilities, investor-owned electric companies and electric cooperatives have already restored power to nearly 750,000 customers as of 9:00 a.m. (ET) on Jan. 29 in the wake of Winter Storm Fern, work continues around-the-clock, especially in the communities that saw between 1 and 2 inches of destructive ice accumulations.
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Grid Modernization
What opportunities and strategies public power utilities are finding work to overcome interconnection delays, changing market conditions, and regulatory uncertainty for their infrastructure projects.
WASHINGTON (January 29, 2026) – Winter Storm Fern brought heavy snow and damaging ice from the Southwest through the Mid-Atlantic as forecasted. The electric power industry mobilized quickly ahead of...
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Distributed Energy Resources
The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Jan. 27 issued a decision to allow Vineyard Wind to resume full activities in its lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf.
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Reliability
In the week ending January 25, 2026, as Winter Storm Fern affected significant portions of the country, coal-fired electricity generation in the Lower 48 states increased 31% from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Jan. 28.