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The Stowe Electric Department in Vermont used a Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments grant from the American Public Power Association to develop a framework for small rural utilities to evaluate the integration of microgrids into their grids.
Massachusetts-based Reading Municipal Light Department is working with NextEra Energy Resources to bring two solar arrays to land adjacent to the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire.
The Florida Municipal Power Agency has entered into agreements to acquire three power plants, comprising approximately 339 megawatts of natural gas-fired combined cycle generation in central Florida, FMPA said on June 29.
California community choice aggregator Peninsula Clean Energy has received an upgraded credit rating of Baa1 from Moody’s Investors Service, the CCA said on June 29.
Extreme weather events continue to pose the greatest risk to the reliability and stability of the North American bulk power system, even though the system remains highly reliable and resilient, according to the latest assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.
Florida public power utility OUC on June 26 was honored for a century of reliable service to Central Florida with a proclamation declaring "OUC 100th Anniversary Day."
Clean energy microgrids can provide an opportunity to both enhance resiliency and decrease greenhouse emissions, according to a report by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Association of State Energy Officials.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on June 22 announced that South Fork Wind, New York's first offshore wind farm, has achieved its "steel in the water" milestone with the installation of the project's first monopile foundation.