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Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD on March 22 was joined by partners from the City of Everett, Wash., the Washington State Department of Commerce and others, to officially break ground on the PUD’s newest community solar project.
The Connecticut Senate Energy and Technology Committee on March 21 passed a bill that would require the state’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to evaluate the impact of large data centers on grid reliability.
The City of Lake Worth Beach, Fla., recently announce that its new Electric System Operations Center is officially completed and has been placed in service.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on March 21 voted to establish a new Federal-State Current Issues Collaborative “to build on nearly three years of successful transmission-related task force discussions with state utility regulators and expand their efforts to energy sector issues where there are relevant jurisdictional connections or potential regulatory gaps,” FERC said.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on March 21 affirmed its July 2023 rule that streamlined the country’s generator interconnection process.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on March 21 proposed to remove the requirement that a transmission provider pay an interconnection customer for reactive power within the standard power factor range.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other federal agencies recently issued a fact sheet that provides an overview for executive leaders on the urgent risk posed by People’s Republic of China state-sponsored cyber actors known as “Volt Typhoon.”
Arevon Energy on March 19 announced it has entered into a 15-year energy storage service agreement with San Diego Community Power, California’s second largest community choice aggregator, for the full capacity of the Avocet Energy Storage Project.