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Washington State’s Snohomish County Public Utility District (SnoPUD), with its partner Virtual Peaker Inc., plans to roll out a cloud-based energy management system for its customers in the coming months.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently issued an order affirming the small utility opt-in feature supported by the American Public Power Association of a final rule that allows for distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators to compete in regional organized wholesale electric markets.
Congress and other federal agencies need to take action to keep pace with the nation’s evolving electric power grid, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Compute North is expanding its operations in Kearney, Nebraska, potentially adding as much as 70 megawatts (MW) to Nebraska Public Power District’s (NPPD) load. The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company, which provides energy-intensive computing capacity for blockchain, cryptocurrency mining, and other
Across the country, a new generation of female engineers is making its mark at public power utilities. For many, their path to engineering began at a young age, with their interest sparked by a math teacher in high school, a high school introduction to engineering course or discovering a love for fixing things.
Randy Howard, General Manager of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), and other panelists at a congressional hearing on March 11 underscored the need for Congress to reinstate advance refunding bonds, among other key bond modernization steps.
Douglas County PUD Commissioners Aaron Viebrock, Molly Simpson and Ronald E Skagen recently moved the first shovels of dirt at the soon to be built renewable hydrogen production facility near Baker Flats, East Wenatchee.
Incentives from the New York Power Authority (NYPA), Empire State Development, and Genesee County, N.Y., have prompted Plug Power to invest $290 million in a green hydrogen fuel production facility and electric substation.