Transmission
The Western Area Power Administration will begin the first portion of a three-phase project on Feb. 27 to help mitigate future transmission power outages in Estes Park, Colorado, and the surrounding area, Platte River Power Authority reported on Feb. 6.
Electricity Markets
The North American Energy Standards Board on February 7 will hold a kick-off meeting for the development of a standardized model contract to facilitate the acquisition of distribution services from distributed energy resource aggregations.
Workforce
Chris McCullion has been selected to replace Mindy Brenay as Chief Financial Officer for the Orlando Utilities Commission effective March 4, 2024.
Generation
Deployment of enhanced geothermal generation could be boosted by using the technology as a load-following rather than baseload system, according to an article in Nature Energy.
Reliability
Sandia National Laboratories, together with New Mexico State University, is developing algorithms that they hope have the potential to create a self-healing grid.
Generation
On January 16, 2024, a record high of 141.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas was consumed in the U.S. Lower 48 states, exceeding the previous record set on December 23, 2022, according to estimates from S&P Global Commodity Insights, the Energy Information Administration reported on Feb. 6.