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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is marking Earth Month by expanding clean energy programs, providing grants of up to $2.5 million for large property owners to make green improvements, and offering rebates for the latest water conservation tools, it said on April 21.
The Dos Palos Clean Power project in Merced County, one of California’s first community solar projects, is now online. A joint project from California community choice aggregator Peninsula Clean Energy and Renewable America, Dos Palos will generate 3 megawatts of solar power as part of the CCA’s Green Access Program.
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright on April 22 announced the release of the third loan disbursement to Holtec for the reopening of the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan.
During the April Federal Energy Regulatory Commission open meeting, Mark Lauby, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s senior vice president and chief engineer, briefed FERC about recent load loss events. He provided insights into several initiatives launched by NERC to address the
The American Public Power Association recently submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on its proposed rule to regulate nitrogen oxide emissions from stationary combustion turbines.
The Tennessee Valley Authority on April 21 released a request for proposals for firm capacity between 50 to 1,000 megawatts.
An estimated $421 million in power transmission reliability investments are on the horizon through 2028, according to the latest update of ISO New England’s Regional System Plan Project List.
U.S. energy consumption decreases in the next several years before increasing again in the early 2040s through 2050, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s recently published Annual Energy Outlook 2025 (AEO2025).