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A group of Massachusetts state lawmakers on April 23 toured the Reading Municipal Light Department’s (RMLD) Minuteman Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in North Reading, Mass.
Salt River Project (SRP) on May 3 unveiled plans to more than double its 2025 utility-scale solar commitment to now add a total of 2,025 megawatts (MW) of new utility-scale solar energy to its power system by the end of fiscal year 2025, driven in part by dedicated customer demand for new renewables.
Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, recently visited a Snohomish County PUD microgrid site. The Arlington microgrid is currently undergoing testing and commissioning and should be fully operational in a few months.
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month – commemorated each May – we are proudly spotlighting the public power leadership roles our API colleagues have at utilities across the United States, including at U.S. territories in the Western Pacific. We kickoff our coverage by sharing updates from Guam.
A bipartisan group of legislators in Maine last week announced plans to introduce legislation that would create a consumer owned utility that would take over the electric service now provided by Central Maine Power (CMP) and Versant Power.
The American Public Power Association (APPA) has received a patent related to protecting the ability of public power utilities to use machine learning techniques for advanced analytics and benchmarking to improve safety.
California public power utility Glendale Water & Power (GWP) has launched a demand response program for residential and commercial customers, GWP reported on April 19.
The American Public Power Association (APPA) on April 21 said it appreciates the work Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and his staff have put into refining and improving federal energy tax incentives in the Clean Energy for America Act (CEA).