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Safety
The American Public Power Association’s Safety Awards of Excellence program has been updated and is now available for utilities to review before applications open in January.
Transmission
The Midcontinent ISO Board of Directors on Dec. 12 unanimously approved the largest portfolio of transmission projects in the nation’s history.
Generation
The Austin, Texas, City Council on Dec. 12 unanimously adopted public power Austin Energy’s Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2035, providing a flexible path to a clean energy future that incorporates the community’s core values of reliability, affordability, environmental sustainability and energy equity.
Workforce
The New York Power Authority Board of Trustees recently approved $8 million in funding for clean energy workforce training and development programs.
Bills and Rates
Orlando, Fla.-based public power utility OUC has been authorized by its Board of Commissioners to move forward with a multiyear plan “to empower customers with new opportunities to save money, better align costs with how electricity is used, and optimize OUC’s reliable, affordable, and sustainable power grid,” the utility said on Dec. 11
Generation
Building enough infrastructure for unconstrained data center demand in Virginia “will be very difficult and meeting half that demand is still difficult,” a recently released report concludes.
Workforce
Texas public power utility Kerrville Public Utility Board announced the promotion of Amy Dozier to the position of assistant general manager.
Grid Modernization
The New York Power Authority and Texas public power utility CPS Energy are among the utilities and companies that are founding members of the public-private Mercury Consortium.
Reliability
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority Governing Board on Dec. 12 approved a $1.52 million expenditure for the replacement of a transformer at the Richmond Power Plant on St. Croix.
Disaster Response and Mutual Aid
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $1.8 million to the State of Vermont to reimburse the Burlington Electric Department for recovery work for damage caused by the severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides that took place in July 2023.