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The City of Fountain, Colo., a public power community, recently provided an update on the city’s Green Power Initiative, which includes a 1.7-megawatt solar array.
Country Acres Clean Power LLC has entered into certain agreements in connection with a new solar and energy storage project under development located in Placer County, California. The agreements include a busbar power purchase agreement with California public power utility Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
The Department of Energy on Nov. 16 published a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment to amend its implementing procedures governing compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act that would impact certain transmission, solar and energy storage projects.
On the evening of October 24, the city of Osawatomie, Kansas, began experiencing troubles at a power plant substation. It was subsequently determined that the substation transformer was damaged and a replacement was needed.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced that significant progress has been made on the Smart Path Connect transmission project, a transmission rebuild effort in two key state transmission corridors, led by the New York Power Authority and National Grid.
All large-scale solar energy facilities can now be found on a single map thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The average utilization rate for the entire U.S. fleet of combined-cycle natural gas turbine electric power plants has risen as the operating efficiency of new CCGT units has improved, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Nov. 20.
Environmental attribute credits are effective at supporting investment in and the development of renewable energy resources, according to a paper by researchers in the Clean Energy Institute at the University of California, Irvine.