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Electricity Markets
American Municipal Power is honoring Alexa Ray, a Power Supply Analyst at AMP, with its 2024 AMP Employee Innovator Award, AMP said on Oct. 21.
Electricity Markets
Serving surging data center power consumption could require more than $2 trillion in new energy generation resources worldwide, according to a new report released by Bain & Company.
Environment
The American Public Power Association on Oct. 15 submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency in response to questions that EPA posed during its federalism consultation regarding the pending rules to regulate emissions from stationary combustion turbines.
Reliability
Representatives from the Bonneville Power Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation recently celebrated the conclusion of a six-year effort to transfer ownership of critical electrical grid components.
Community Engagement
Heartland Energy is helping two customers invest in the future of their communities. The cities of Aurora and Miller, South Dakota each earned $5,000 economic development grants to assist with key projects aimed at enhancing local infrastructure and driving economic growth.
Generation
U.S. power demand has remained essentially flat for the past decade, “but this is all about to change as a pending surge in demand growth will be the biggest challenge for utility companies in decades,” consulting firm Wood Mackenzie recently said.
Reliability
Washington State’s Snohomish County PUD is inviting the community to a ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the Jennings Park Substation on Nov. 4.
Electricity Markets
U.S. electricity consumption is growing fastest in Texas and “one of the main sources of growing demand for power is large-scale computing facilities such as data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.