Benton PUD and Anterix have entered into an agreement for Benton PUD to acquire a 10 MHz 900 MHz spectrum license from Anterix, establishing the first private wireless broadband deployment among publicly owned utilities in the Pacific Northwest.

In a recent interview with APPA, Kris Sellstrom, the General Manager of the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities, the public power utility that serves Jamestown, New York, provides an update on the utility’s open access fiber network project and details his priorities as the new General Manager of the utility including one-on-one meetings with BPU employees this year.

The House of Representatives recently passed the bipartisan S. 1020, the “Build More Hydro Act,” by a vote of 394-14.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently testified before two House committees on the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request.

Noteworthy AI on April 21 announced a new program that enables American Municipal Power to offer its more than 130 municipal electric utility members with a program that provides streamlined access to Noteworthy AI's Inspection platform through standardized terms and group-buy pricing.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Lower Colorado River Authority announced that the second unit of the 380-megawatt Timmerman Peaker Power Plant in Maxwell, Texas, is fully operational one month ahead of schedule.