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The Reading Municipal Light Department on Feb. 23 announced the acceleration of its decarbonization efforts through the recent update to Policy 30 and accelerated retirement of non-carbon certificates.
The New York Power Authority is leading a study to validate a technique that could potentially help the utility industry digitally monitor transformers to better detect problems without taking the units out of service, it said on Feb.22.
Husky Terminal, which has been a fixture at the Port of Tacoma for over forty years, recently implemented major upgrades to its onsite lighting, with assistance from Washington State public power utility Tacoma Power.
The Florida Municipal Electric Association recently recognized excellence in Florida public power at an awards banquet where the winners of the FMEA Safety Awards were announced.
ISO New England on Feb. 21 filed the finalized results of its 18th Forward Capacity Auction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
There are “immediate and serious challenges to the reliability of our region’s electric grid,” and the entire industry — utilities, states and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator — must work together and move faster to address them, John Bear, CEO of MISO, recently said.
Operators plan to retire 5.2 gigawatts of U.S. electric generating capacity in 2024, a 62% decrease from last year when 13.5 GW was retired and the least in any year since 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration’s latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory.
Platte River Power Authority recently issued an all-dispatchable resources request for proposals to help firm its increasingly renewable energy portfolio.