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Public power entities in California are hailing the State Legislature’s passage of legislation (AB 825) that will allow California’s participation in a new, independent regional electricity market.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 9 announced the availability of new guidance on New Source Review (NSR) preconstruction permitting requirements.
In advance of a hearing to be held by the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Communications & Technology Subcommittee on broadband deployment, APPA sent a letter opposing H.R. 278, the BROADBAND Leadership Act, to the bill’s sponsor, Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA), subcommittee members, and subcommittee staff.
The American Public Power Association, joined by the Large Public Power Council and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, recently protested a petition filed by EDF Renewables seeking an order from FERC to reinstate the company’s solar plus storage project to Salt River Project's interconnection queue.
Texas public power utility CPS Energy and PROENERGY have entered into a definitive agreement under which CPS Energy has agreed to acquire four natural gas power generation facilities with an aggregate electric capacity totaling 1,632 megawatts for $1.387 billion, subject to standard net working
Orlando Utilities Commission, a Florida public power utility, recently announced that it has connected nearly 11,000 households with $11.7 million in critical funding to help cover their home energy costs.
The American Public Power Association on September 15 filed comments in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed “Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities; CCR Management Unit Deadline Extension Rule.”
Grant PUD staff has proposed a 16-month power-sales “bridge” agreement that would change the way Grant PUD sells about one-third of its share of the generation from Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams and better positions the utility to serve its growing customer demand in a changing market, the Washington State PUD said on Sept. 11.