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A purchase power agreement (PPA) the City of Denton, Texas, has entered into with Core Scientific to provide power to the company's anticipated digital asset mining operation is unlikely to affect the credit quality of the city’s utility revenue bonds, Fitch Ratings recently said.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) recently announced the completion of the major overhaul of three hydroelectric power generating units inside the Nathaniel “Nat” Washington Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam.
Colorado Springs Utilities on Jan. 7 unveiled its plan to construct its next-generation, city-wide fiber network. The network will enhance utility operations, allowing the public power utility to better serve its customers, and enable multi-gigabit internet connectivity to every home and business in
Three California community choice aggregators (CCAs) have partnered to jointly issue a request for proposals (RFP) for new clean energy resources.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) plans to deploy light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology to monitor the health of its grid and to help it unlock transmission capacity to enable more renewable energy to reach the grid. The LiDAR sensors will be deployed to monitor NYPA’s 230-kilovolt (kV)
Washington State’s Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) and investor-owned utility Avista have finalized a contract for hydropower from the PUD’s two hydro projects on the Columbia River.
The Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency (KYMEA) and a number of partners have provided $30,000 in direct relief and contributions to a Kentucky tornado relief fund in the wake of tornadoes that hit the western part of the state on December 10, 2021.
South Carolina public power utility Santee Cooper’s Jamison Solar Site, a 1.2-megawatt facility located on over five acres in Orangeburg, has become South Carolina’s first Gold Certified Solar Habitat Site.