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The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a new resource that provides owners, operators, and stakeholders with updated threat information and protective measures that can help improve a substation’s on-site physical security. CISA produced the resource in collaboration with the Department of Energy.
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada has awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to Texas public power utility Greenville Electric Utility System for its annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2021.
Kevin Maynard, Director of Electric Utilities for the public power community of Marshall, Mich., recently detailed how Marshall will benefit from Ford’s plans to invest $3.5 billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed lithium iron phosphate battery plant in the city.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a July 2021 decision by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims blocking public power utilities from recovering direct payment bond refunds cut by sequestration.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 17 issued a final rule that reaffirmed the scientific, economic, and legal underpinnings of the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants, which required significant reductions of mercury, acid gases, and other harmful pollutants.
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.