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Nucor Corporation has signed a 10-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Orsted Onshore North America, LLC for 100 megawatts from Orsted's Western Trail wind farm in North Texas.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is looking to procure at least 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy resource capacity and at least 500 MW of energy storage resource capacity with an effective duration of four hours under a request for proposals (RFP) PREPA has issued.
A bipartisan group of 12 senators recently introduced the Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Tax Credit Amendments Act of 2021.
Belmont Light in Massachusetts has developed an energy resource planning model with the help of a Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) grant from the American Public Power Association.
Seattle City Light, along with other local government agencies, has released a plan to transition the city to a transportation system with lower greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution while increasing electric mobility options and creating a pipeline of clean energy jobs and workforce diversity.
Washington State’s Snohomish County Public Utility District (SnoPUD), with its partner Virtual Peaker Inc., plans to roll out a cloud-based energy management system for its customers in the coming months.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently issued an order affirming the small utility opt-in feature supported by the American Public Power Association of a final rule that allows for distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators to compete in regional organized wholesale electric markets.
Congress and other federal agencies need to take action to keep pace with the nation’s evolving electric power grid, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.