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The board of directors of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance recently honored winners of the 2023 Leadership in Energy Efficiency Awards and Seattle City Light Chief Customer Officer Craig Smith received the Tom Eckman Leadership in Energy Efficiency Award for Lifetime Achievement.
South Dakota-based joint action agency Heartland Energy recently launched a flame-resistant clothing store available to customers beginning in January.
After an extensive search, Tennessee public power utility Columbia Power & Water Systems recently announced the hiring of a new president and CEO, Jonathan Hardin.
The American Public Power Association is urging the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service to provide timely guidance on domestic content requirements for purposes of qualifying for elective payment of energy tax credits.
Geothermal heat pumps have the potential to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions while also lowering the need for new transmission lines, according to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Santee Cooper Board of Directors on Dec. 4 approved $1.2 billion in spending for 2024, including $556 million in non-fuel operations and maintenance costs and $665 million in capital spending for 2024, as part of its annual budget review for the utility.
Fitch Ratings has assigned a rating of AA- to the approximately $16 million in revenue bonds issued by the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company for the MMWEC Master Sergeant Alexander Cotton Memorial Solar Project.
The U.S. Department of Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority recently announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and potentially other federal facilities in TVA’s service territory, with 100% locally supplied carbon emissions-free electricity by 2030.