Public Power Current

Impacted investor-owned electric companies, electric cooperatives, and public power utilities continue to work around the clock to restore power safely and as quickly as possible to customers and communities impacted by Hurricane Helene, which caused catastrophic damage across 10 states, impacting nearly 6 million electricity customers in total, the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council said on Oct. 1.

The U.S. energy storage market experienced significant growth in the second quarter, with the grid-scale segment leading the way at 2,773 MW and 9,982 MWh deployed.

In a new study assessing how climate change might alter hydropower generation across the continental U.S., researchers show that except for some parts of the Southwest, hydropower generation is expected to rise in the future.

Public power utility Colorado Springs Utilities recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for a grid reliability project.

The Bonneville Power Administration is planning to rebuild the 60-mile-long Shelton-Fairmount No. 1 115-kilovolt wood pole transmission line along the Hood Canal in Northwest Washington.

The City Council of Pueblo, Colo., recently voted in favor of allocating funds to study the possible formation of a public power utility in the city.

City Utilities of Springfield, Mo., has been authorized by its Board of Public Utilities to move forward with an intent to finance capital expenditures for the construction of power generation and battery storage projects. Projects include 150 megawatts of additional electric generation and 36 MW of

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has issued a notice of intent to fund up to $1.3 billion “to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies,” OECD said on Sept. 27.