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Generation
Public power utility Idaho Falls Power on Sept. 16 announced that it is negotiating a power purchase agreement with Aalo Atomics, a nuclear engineering company developing small-scale, factory-built modular nuclear reactors.
Bonds and Financing
Moody’s Ratings and the Kroll Bond Rating Agency have both upgraded their ratings on the New York Power Authority’s revenue bonds.
Electricity Markets
The California Independent System Operator will soon unveil a new Grid Resource Interconnection Portal and a Points of Interconnection Heatmap.
Transmission
If all the high-voltage transmission currently under construction and in advanced stages of permitting is built by 2030 in the Western U.S. -- enabling the construction of new renewable energy projects -- carbon dioxide emissions in the Western United States would drop by 73 percent compared to 2005, a new report issued by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found.
Customer Service
Power outages, wildfires, rooftop solar systems, and demand response programs create a need for utilities to communicate with customers quickly and clearly. Utilizing omnichannel communication systems can help ensure customers stay in the know and also help utilities respond to the many outage-related calls and emails from customers.
Bills and Rates
Chelan PUD commissioners will spend the next two months studying a proposed two-year extension of the annual rate increases that started with the 2020-2024 strategic plan, the Washington State-based PUD said on Sept. 17.
Electricity Markets
The North American Energy Standards Board on Sept. 12 announced its completion of a recommendation for a new standard contract, drafted at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, which NAESB said will increase efficiency and consistency in transactions between utilities and distributed energy resource aggregators in the procurement of distribution services.
Workforce
Florida public power utility JEA on Sept. 17 presented scholarships to 10 University of North Florida female student-athletes who are pursuing STEM degrees.
Distributed Energy Resources
Sandhills Energy is set to begin construction on two solar projects in Iowa – each exceeding 4 megawatts – in Indianola and Waverly, Iowa, both of which are public power communities.
Electricity Markets
The PJM Interconnection recently tested its ability to temporarily reduce voltage in order to practice and validate an emergency procedure used to ease system conditions under extreme circumstances.