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Nominations for the American Public Power Association’s Policy Makers Council are being accepted through November 21, 2025.
Colorado Springs Utilities Chief Executive Officer Travas Deal has named Nick Peters as the new Chief System Planning and Projects Officer, effective immediately.
The Kissimmee Utility Authority Board of Directors welcomed a new board member and held its annual election of officers.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management and Office of Science recently issued a Request for Proposal seeking proposals from companies to build and power AI data centers at DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015) expired at 12:01 a.m. on the morning of October 1. APPA strongly supported the enactment of CISA 2015 and supports a clean, long-term reauthorization of CISA 2015.
Public power utilities across the U.S. are planning a wide range of activities to celebrate this year’s Public Power Week, which is October 5-11. Those activities include, among other things, spotlighting the voices of customers on social media, holding cookouts and providing power plant tours.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced $16 million in state funds to support the development of New York’s clean energy workforce.
With the right strategies, data centers can transition from being passive loads to dynamic resources that actively support the grid, a recent GridBeyond white paper says.