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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Dec. 30 released a final rule that repeals the Trump Administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule and adopts a new WOTUS definition. The agencies said that the new definition is founded on the pre-2015 WOTUS definition but is updated to reflect their broad interpretation of Supreme Court decisions.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in late December announced an agreement with Swell Energy that would give the California public power utility the ability to tap into its customers’ energy storage devices to create a “virtual power plant.”
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently launched a project to restore prairie land and pollinator habitat on a portion of land at the site of a former nuclear power plant.
New England public power utilities have sent crews to help rural cooperative utilities in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine restore power in the wake of a winter storm that recently hit the region.
There are a number of ways in which the American Public Power Association (APPA) can help the Department of Energy successfully implement a Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program including assisting in identifying solutions as well as potential pathways for increasing information sharing with small- and medium-sized public power utilities, APPA said.
In a recent interview with Public Power Current, Aaron Haderle, Manager of Transmission and Distribution Operations at Florida public power utility Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA), detailed the benefits that have flowed from an intern program for line workers funded through the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program.
The American Public Power Association (APPA) and other trade groups are urging congressional leaders to waive the statutory Pay-as-You-Go-Act of 2010 (PAYGO) before the close of the 117th Congress.
Research funded by the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program examines awareness and participation of Wisconsin residents in a home energy assistance program.