California community choice aggregator MCE on March 4 launched an Open Season request for offers that seeks renewable energy resources including those with energy storage.

Public power utilities in Washington State are the recipients of grants recently awarded by the Washington State Department of Commerce. The funding will be used for, among other things, solar, energy storage and microgrid projects.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced the state has conditionally awarded two offshore wind projects from its fourth offshore wind solicitation -- a planned 810-megawatt project, Empire Wind 1, and Sunrise Wind, a planned 924-megawatt project.

Georgia Power announced on March 1 that Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia, has achieved another major milestone in startup testing by generating electricity and successfully synchronizing and connecting to the electric grid for the first time.

The American Public Power Association recently joined with a broad coalition of governmental entities and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in filing comments with the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service on exceptions to domestic content requirements for elective payment.