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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.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets have been certified to be in line with a trajectory that is well below a 2° centigrade increase above pre-industrial levels.
The Utilities Board of Tuskegee in Alabama played a major role in the decision by Samkee Corp., a major South Korean automotive supplier, to invest $128 million to open its first U.S. factory in Alabama.
The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Program on February 3, 2023, appointed Rodney Bourne, General Manager at Rolla Municipal Utilities (Missouri), to fill a vacant seat on the program’s board of directors. Bourne will serve as the director representing Region