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The TransWest Express Transmission Project, a new high-voltage interregional transmission line that will extend from south-central Wyoming through northwestern Colorado and central Utah, ending in southern Nevada, advanced on June 20 with project groundbreaking.
David Osburn, general manager of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority in Edmond, Oklahoma, on June 21 was installed as the new chair of the American Public Power Association’s Board of Directors at APPA’s National Conference in Seattle, Washington. Osburn was introduced at the conference’s closing
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on June 20 announced the completion and successful energization of the New York Power Authority's Smart Path clean energy transmission infrastructure project.
Massachusetts is seeking to enlist the Department of Energy in an effort to develop a new approach to the development of interregional transmission coordination.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas on June 20 asked state residents to voluntarily reduce electricity use, if safe to do so, due to extreme temperatures and forecasted record demand.
Twenty individuals and eight utilities were recognized for service to the American Public Power Association and the public power industry during APPA’s National Conference in Seattle, Wash., on June 20.
Staff from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation on June 15 made a presentation at FERC’s monthly meeting on the preliminary conclusions from their ongoing inquiry into bulk power system operations during the Winter Storm Elliott event in December 2022.
Clean energy microgrids offer a better and cheaper solution for protecting California communities from wildfire-related outages, compared to conventional microgrids, An international team led by research scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found.