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The Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority in August authorized staff to move forward with entering the Southwest Power Pool’s Generation Interconnection queue.
The American Public Power Association recently sent a letter to the leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee outlining APPA’s priorities for the Water Resources Development Act conference process.
The Bureau of Land Management has approved the Greenlink West Transmission Project, which will create a system of new transmission lines and facilities crossing federal, state, Tribal and private lands from North Las Vegas to Reno, Nev., through Clark, Esmeralda, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Storey and Washoe counties, the BLM said on Sept. 9.
A coalition of energy and former utility regulatory officials is calling for increased coordination and information sharing between market players in the electricity and natural gas industries.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange program recently released a draft roadmap to improve processes for interconnecting clean energy resources to the distribution and sub-transmission grids and is seeking feedback from energy stakeholders.
California public power utility Pasadena Water and Power will hold a virtual meeting to discuss a roadmap that will define the key actions and future decision points to help best position PWP to achieve Pasadena, California’s goal to source all electricity from carbon-free sources by the end of 2030.
Crews from the City of Tallahassee Electric Utility and Gainesville Regional Utilities are en route to support Lafayette Utilities System in restoration efforts following the anticipated landfall of Hurricane Francine on Sept. 11, the Florida Municipal Electric Association said on Sept. 10.
A draft report prepared by the Brattle Group for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority said that advanced nuclear technologies “could offer attractive possibilities for New York, with its scalability, economic development, low land use, and potential applications of process heat” and may represent an opportunity for additional grid capacity “to support an electrifying economy, that can complement New York’s buildout of renewables.”