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Bills and Rates
The Gainesville Regional Utilities Authority recently approved a resolution to change the Florida public power utility’s residential electric tier structure beginning Jan. 1, 2025.
Grid Modernization
Willdan Group has been selected to implement the Snohomish County Public Utility District’s new energy efficiency program for telecommunications and data center facilities.
Generation
California Resources Corporation and its carbon management business, Carbon TerraVault announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Net Power Inc. to develop Net Power’s ultra-low emission power plants in California.
Reliability
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity released three Notices of Funding Opportunity totaling nearly $18.4 million for programs to support research and development of electricity grid technologies.
Transmission
The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec.16 released a list of three potential National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors moving to the next phase of the designation process.
Reliability
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office on Dec. 17 announced a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $15 billion to Pacific Gas & Electric Company, a combined natural gas and electric utility serving Northern and Central California.
Transmission
The Bonneville Power Administration has identified that its traditional model for deploying transmission capital will not be sufficient to meet customer needs, it said on Dec. 12. BPA has determined a need to double its transmission capital execution by 2028.
Electricity Markets
The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners recently approved the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s participation in the California Independent System Operator Extended Day-Ahead Market, a voluntary, wholesale energy market designed to optimize the availability of energy on existing transmission line infrastructure in the Western United States, LADWP reported on Dec. 17.
Distributed Energy Resources
MN8 Energy on Dec. 17 announced it will own and operate the 135MWac Prairie Solar project in Champaign County, Illinois, which includes 50MWac of capacity dedicated to a City of Cambridge, Mass., virtual power purchase agreement. The project will support the largest virtual PPA ever undertaken by a U.S. city, according to MN8 Energy.
Generation
Commonwealth Fusion Systems on Dec. 17 announced that it will build the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant at the James River Industrial Park in Chesterfield County, Virginia.