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California public power utility Alameda Municipal Power has secured a long-term purchase agreement with the Northern California Power Agency and the Geysers Power Company under which Alameda Municipal Power will procure and deliver up to five megawatts of energy produced from the Geysers geothermal power plants located in California’s Sonoma and Lake Counties.
The New York Power Authority and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority recently announced that a first-of-its-kind battery energy storage system using patented, high-safety, lithium-ion superCell technology is delivering energy peak shaving capabilities to NYPA’s White Plains, N.Y., offices, as part of a demonstration project.
Douglas County Public Utility District in Washington State is moving ahead with the second phase of its green hydrogen project.
The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration has revised its short-term outlook on natural gas prices, lowering them from its October forecast.
The U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Internal Revenue Service on Feb. 13 released details on a program included in the Inflation Reduction Act that offers a boost of up to 20 percentage points to the investment tax credit for solar and wind energy projects in low-income communities.
Michigan public power utility Holland Board of Public Works continues to make progress on the construction of a new substation.
Texas public power utility CPS Energy has reached agreements with three companies for solar capacity, firming capacity, and energy storage capacity, closing out the utility’s FlexPOWER Bundle initiative stemming from a request for proposals that was launched in 2020.
The city of Tallahassee, Fla., is moving toward 100 percent clean energy with the help of a tool developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.