Chelan PUD customer-owners recently weighed in on how the Washington State PUD should evaluate requests for large amounts of power.

The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority on July 24 said that the remobilization of the Wärtsilä Phase 2 New Generation project at the Randolph Harley Power Plant and the completion of the final battery module installation for a battery energy storage system.

FirstLight on Aug. 6 announced a new power purchase agreement with Burlington Electric Department, a Vermont public power utility. Through the agreement, which kicked off in July, FirstLight will deliver Burlington, Vermont over 54 gigawatt hours of hydropower and associated VT-1 renewable energy credits through 2025 from FirstLight’s Shepaug Generating Station in Connecticut.

Coal stockpiles at U.S. electric power plants totaled 138 million short tons at the end of May, the most since the first half of 2020 when the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reduced electricity demand and coal consumption, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Aug. 5.

The rebuild of Oregon public power utility Eugene Water & Electric Board’s Currin Substation is almost complete, marking a significant milestone in EWEB’s investment in major infrastructure modernizations, the utility reported in late July.

In a recent Q&A with Public Power Current, Troy Adams, general manager for Wisconsin Public Power utility Manitowoc Public Utilities, detailed how a power plant boiler refueling project being pursued by the utility offers a variety of benefits for Manitowoc Public Utilities.