LCRA Buys Additional Spectrum Licenses From Anterix For $13.5 Million

Rural Utility Gets $2.5 Billion From USDA For Energy Transition

Company Claims To Solve Inertia Problems For Wind, Solar And River Turbines

Rayburn Electric Gets USDA Grant And A Book About Itself

Revolution For Utilities Is Coming With AI Agents

Breakthrough Anterix Deal To Enhance Performance Of Largest Texas Retailer: Dallas-based Oncor Electric Delivery Company has signed a deal worth $102.5 million with Anterix, a Woodland Park, New Jersey communications company.

Nuclear Regulation Is Part Of Astronaut William Anders' Legacy: In addition to being a fighter pilot, a member of the Apollo 8 crew, and the iconic “Earthrise” photo shooter, William Anders was the founding chairman of the NRC.

The Future Of Hydrogen: DOE And Moniz Start Setting Up A Demand Market: An extraordinary new consortium, guided by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, wants to make hydrogen a viable option in the pursuit of net-zero emissions.

Google-Backed Company To Invest $100 Million In Virtual Power Plant: Renew Home formalizes the cooperation between Google Nest and OhmConnect and unites them in a structure that will push ahead in existing markets and pioneer new ones.

Big European Gas Trader Looks To United States To Maintain LNG Market Stability: While the Biden administration is concerned about approving the construction of new LNG export terminals, the world is glad the U.S. is a stable supplier of that fuel.

The Future Utility’s Shape Can Be Seen In This Western Cooperative: To help reduce costs for rural consumers in the clean energy transition, Tri-State is pursuing funding through the USDA, amounting to just under $1 billion.

Former EEI Chief Tom Kuhn To Join Anterix Board As Vice Chairman: Thomas Kuhn, who for over 30 years was president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, is joining Anterix as a member of the board and its vice chairman.

Executive Sketch: Matheson Leads NRECA In Era of Big Change For Utilities: NRECA's Matheson has chosen to push the big issues, especially rural broadband penetration, and has trumpeted alarm over future demand versus supply of electricity.

How To Bring Back Nuclear — A New Paradigm Changing The Role Of Government: The nuclear paradigm is broken and can’t be repaired. It needs to be rethought, root and branch.

Fifty Years After Energy Crisis, Oil Still Has Role, Gas Critical One: While the United States is the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas, it wants to curb gas use by electric utilities and end oil as the primary transport fuel.

A Step In The Struggle To Move Clean Energy From West To East: The Western states have the renewable resources of wind and solar in abundance. But the big power needs lie east in the Midwest and the Atlantic Coast.

Burns & McDonnell Stakes A Key Place In Electric Van Scene: I don’t quite know why, but since I was a small boy in Africa, I have been fascinated with the idea of electrified transportation.

Biden IRA Electricity Industry Money Out Of Reach Of Small Utilities: Mountain View Electric Association, Inc., which serves a 5,000-square-mile territory, including Colorado Springs, is small electric cooperative.

Greece Keen To End Lignite Use And Become A Regional Renewables Power Hub: PPC Renewables is growing fast as the leading renewables platform in southeastern Europe.

EEI Head Kuhn Gets Unique, Sentimental Send-Off: Here is the backstory to the Edison Electric Institute’s annual meeting in Austin this month: After 30 years President and CEO Thomas Kuhn, universally known as Tom, i...

Undersea Connectors Show The Way To Globalization Of Electricity: At a time when it may be slowing in other sectors, globalization is booming in electricity.

How To Grow, Serve, And Innovate: The CPS Energy Challenge: CPS Energy in San Antonio is something of a lab for utilities. Its current test: Focus on reliability while accommodating the new and the renewable as fast as possible.

ChatGPT Ponders U.S. Electric Grid Collapse: My friend John E. Savage, An Wang professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University, asked ChatGPT about what might cause the U.S. electric grid to collapse.

The Next Big Thing In Electric Utilities: Virtual Power Plants: It is a huge challenge for the electric utilities to change their way of doing things: They can’t shut down for retooling.

Anterix And LCRA Spectrum Deal Foreshadows A Surge In Broadband Orders From Electric Utilities: The joint Anterix-LCRA announcement has a significance way beyond the details of the Texas transaction.