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The Board of Supervisors for Placer County, Calif., recently approved a 1,170-acre solar panel facility that will provide power to Sacramento Municipal Utility District customers in west Placer County.
The U.S. Department of Energy on Feb. 28 announced a Request for Proposals for up to $200 million for transmission projects to connect remote and isolated microgrids to existing infrastructure corridors in Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories of the United States.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has entered into an agreement that stems from recent litigation related to EIA’s plan to collect data tied to the electricity consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining activity.
A project proposed by Iowa public power utility Montezuma Municipal Light & Power and Iowa State University researchers has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for award negotiations with the goal of building the first “microgrid” in a rural Iowa community.
Wartsila will supply the generating equipment for an 18-megawatt expansion to an existing power plant in Farmington, N.M., utilizing reciprocating internal combustion engine technology.
The American Public Power Association recently joined with a broad coalition of governmental entities and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in filing comments with the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service on exceptions to domestic content requirements for elective payment.
Georgia Power announced on March 1 that Unit 4 at the Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia, has achieved another major milestone in startup testing by generating electricity and successfully synchronizing and connecting to the electric grid for the first time.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced the state has conditionally awarded two offshore wind projects from its fourth offshore wind solicitation -- a planned 810-megawatt project, Empire Wind 1, and Sunrise Wind, a planned 924-megawatt project.