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An annual monitoring report recently shared with the Board of Directors of Omaha Public Power District shows that OPPD earned high marks for minimizing the number of service disruptions our customers experience.
Requests to connect clean energy projects to the grid have soared in recent years, leading to longer wait times and backlogs for project developers, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Alabama public power utility Huntsville Utilities, Toyota Alabama and Toyota Tsusho America Inc. on April 5 announced a power purchase agreement to support a 168-acre, $49 million solar project.
Officials from public power utilities and American Public Power Association staff were recently briefed by Department of Energy officials on a number of key issues including supply chain challenges.
Continued declines in the costs of renewable energy have made some renewable generation technologies cost competitive with conventional generation, according to the most recent edition of Lazard’s energy cost analysis. The 16th version of Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ report analyzed the
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and AVANGRID on April 17 announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore opportunities to develop up to 1 gigawatt of green energy projects within the Navajo Nation in the states of New Mexico and Arizona.
The Council on Environmental Quality’s interim National Environmental Policy Act guidance on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change “misses the mark” and threatens the ability of the public power utilities and rural electric cooperatives to provide affordable and reliable electricity to the communities they serve, the American Public Power Association and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said.
Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas & Electric recently submitted residential electric rate reform proposals to the California Public Utilities Commission that call for a customer income verification process that would be administered by a third-party contractor supervised by the CPUC.