U.S. Department of Energy
Description (30 words or fewer): NCSL welcomes Alex Fitzsimmons as the new director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response and looks forward to a continued partnership with CESER on energy security and resilience issues.
UTILITY DIVE
The commitment “represents a clear pathway to supplying 100% of U.S. energy storage projects with American-made batteries by 2030,” the American Clean Power Association said.
POWER
Hidrogenii has commissioned a 15 metric-ton-per-day hydrogen liquefication plant in Louisiana and said the facility is one of the largest of its kind in North America.
KIII TV
AEP Texas will build one of the first 765-kilovolt transmission lines in the state from Fort Stockton to San Antonio.
POWER
To bolster its advanced nuclear reactor fuel readiness, the U.S. Department of Energy has issued its first round of allocations for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to five American nuclear developers.
DAILY ENERGY INSIDER
Nine Northeastern states issued a strategic action plan to improve planning across three different grid regions.
POWER SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
A new 11 MW battery storage project to be constructed in Virginia will help reduce peak demand and is expected to save about $30 million in transmission and capacity charges over the next 20 years.
MSN
Coal-fired power plants may become more valuable as energy-hungry data centers to power cloud computing operations continue to come online around the U.S.
E&E NEWS
Eastern grid manager PJM has selected 51 “shovel-ready” projects to move up in the connection queue. The projects would add 11,793 MW of power to the grid, with gas-fired generation accounting for two-thirds of the projects.
MSN
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy announced $8.1 million to support the deployment of 1,836 MW of solar projects throughout the state.