Get the News in Your Inbox
Wake up to breaking news that impacts you. Get Public Power Current — published every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday — with exclusive news and features on federal policy, regional and state initiatives, and stories from public power utilities across the country. All employees and board members of APPA member organizations can sign up.
Recently in Public Power Current
The Piqua Power System in Ohio recently completed its annual pole top and bucket rescue training in partnership with American Municipal Power, Inc.
Aalo Atomics broke ground to start construction on Aalo-X, the first experimental extra modular nuclear reactor (XMR).
U.S. grid interconnection agreements reached historic highs in 2024, surging 33% to 75 GW -- the highest volume on record -- due to new federal regulations aimed at streamlining the process, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.
National Grid Ventures recently announced it will install the first commercially deployed, 100 percent hydrogen-fueled linear generator in the world at its Northport Power Plant, supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the Long Island Power Authority.
Diamond Infrastructure Solutions and Houston- based Third Pillar Solar have entered into an agreement giving Third Pillar exclusive access to Texas reservoirs to investigate its design, development, and deployment of utility-scale floating solar projects across the Diamond-owned reservoirs.
Oregon public power utility Eugene Water and Electric Board successfully completed major habitat improvement work on the upper McKenzie River as part of the 2016 settlement agreement for relicensing the Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project.
The City of Santa Clara, California, has collaborated with MidPen Housing, a regional non-profit affordable housing developer, owner, and manager, to bring energy efficiency improvements to Riverwood Grove apartments, a 71-unit affordable housing complex in Santa Clara.
These days, energy sector headlines involving artificial intelligence are focused on how utilities can meet the significant power demand of data centers, but perhaps lost in the shuffle is how AI is being applied to the building sector to boost energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.