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Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
Salt River Project (crews returned to remote areas of the Navajo Nation to provide reliable electricity to 12 families in the Dilkon and Tuba City areas. This effort was part of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority's Mutual Aid Training 2025 program, an arm of the Light Up Navajo (LUN) initiative.
Energy Storage
Grant County PUD Commissioners unanimously approved two, 20-year power-purchase agreements with Royal Slope LLC.
Electricity Markets
ISO New England has begun development of a framework that will establish the grid operator as the independent reviewer of transmission owners’ asset condition projects in the region.
Generation
The U.S. Department of Energy on Oct. 31 issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for up to $100 million in federal funding to refurbish and modernize the nation’s existing coal power plants.
Bonds and Financing
The North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency has received a credit rating upgrade from Fitch Ratings, moving from “A” to “A+” with a Stable Outlook.
Generation
Macquarie Asset Management announced it has provided a $450 million bilateral facility to Sandow Lakes Energy Station, supporting the construction of a 1.2-gigawatt combined cycle gas turbine asset in Lee County, Texas.
Community Engagement
Sports Destination Management, the publication with the largest circulation of sports event planners and tournament directors in the sports tourism market, recently announced the 2025 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism. Among the winners was the 2025 Public Power Lineworkers Rodeo
Generation
The New York Power Authority on Oct. 30 issued its first solicitations as part of a new initiative to develop 1 gigawatt (GW) of advanced nuclear energy.