From Nov. 29: On November 24, 2021, the Rural Utilities Service opened its on-line application portal for its $1.15 billion Rural eConnectivity Program (ReConnect). All applications for this funding round of grants, loans or...
source: UTC
What may be the most complicated spectrum swap yet is getting into gear — with due dates now inscribed in federal law — but the telecom exec tasked with helping to oversee this process professes no frequency fears....
source: Light Reading
Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina CEO Michael Couick says that power providers and academics, alike, are aware of the way the power grid fuels economic growth. He cites a study released earlier this year by the American Academy...
source: Upstate Business Journal
Many rural areas across the country lack access to high-speed, affordable internet largely because installing the infrastructure isn't worth the investment for internet service providers to take on. The cost is too great and the...
source: CNN
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are poorly understood by the utilities, explain Doyob Kim and Alyssa Fischer at the IEA. Part of the problem is that new innovations and solutions are coming fast, and policy-makers aren't creating...
source: Energy Post
The power grid in the U.S. is aging and already struggling to meet current demand. It faces a future with more people, who drive more electric cars and heat homes with more electric furnaces. Alice Hill, an energy and environment...
source: NPR
For nearly a decade, New York has pledged to provide universal high-speed broadband access, allocating over a half-billion dollars into expanding rural networks in some of the most remote areas of the state.
While the efforts...
source: Times Union
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Deep coastal seabeds, glacial erratics, and other geophysical hurdles stand in the way of offshore wind farm proliferation. Researchers, engineers, and organizations are adapting and inventing ways to harness the breeze.
source: Eos
NERC's grid security exercise, GridEx VI, has concluded the distributed play portion of its exercise. Over two days, more than 700 planners led their organizations' efforts to exercise their response and recovery plans in the...
source: T&D World
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection on Nov. 22 launched a final public hearing before the commissioner decides whether to withdraw a permit for a $1 billion electricity transmission project. Opponents of the project urged Commissioner Melanie Loyzim to uphold...
source: The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission launched a hearing process to get more comments on a proposal by utilities participating in the PJM Interconnection that they be able to profit on transmission upgrades needed to bring new power...
source: Utility Dive
More and more Democratic candidates are kicking off their campaigns with Winter Storm Uri and Texas' rickety power grid as the focus of their messaging. Just in time to back up those arguments, a new analysis by the Electric Reliability...
source: Texas Signal
Over the past decade, major utilities in the United States have been spending more on delivering electricity to customers and less on producing that electricity. After adjusting for inflation, major utilities spent 2.6 cents...
source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
Presdent Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law that includes nearly $2 billion for cybersecurity and related provisions. The biggest piece of digital security funding is a Federal Emergency Management...
source: Cyber Scoop
