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FPUA projects will help reduce impacts on the grid caused by unexpected outages, extreme weather, and natural disasters.

Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and US Iberdrola subsidiary Avangrid have closed a $1.2 billion investment in the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore project.

Minnesota Power, an operating division of ALLETE, has secured a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to modernize its HVDC transmission system.

Under the plan, Entergy will be investing $1 billion in New Orleans’ grid over 10 years in two 5-year phases.

Hawaiian Electric continues urgent restoration work in Lahaina 10 weeks after the devastating Aug. 8 wildfire.

President Biden’s administration announced $3.5 billion in grants for projects to protect the U.S. power grid and to connect transmission systems with more electricity from renewables.

Eaton broke ground on a $100 million expansion of its Nacogdoches, Texas manufacturing facility, expected to address the ongoing transformer shortage in the US.

State regulators gave final approval Thursday to the owners of the Grain Belt Express transmission line to drop off thousands of megawatts of clean power in Missouri.

Entergy Mississippi launched a project last year to accelerate the replacement of existing wooden transmission structures with steel or concrete poles.

The cables that will connect New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to the power grid on land are under construction as of Oct. 10 in Island Beach State Park.

About 15 gallons of mineral oil spilled from a transformer that was knocked from a utility pole during a recent vehicle crash.

A $16 million grant has been announced to help the state’s small municipal and co-op utilities improve power grid reliability and help mitigate the impacts of extreme weather on families.

Central Moloney Inc. of Pine Bluff will be sold to a Chicago-based private equity firm, Wind Point Partners.

Xcel Energy and other Minnesota power companies have filed plans to move forward with a new power line.

Canyon County Sheriff’s Office has issued an update to a battery fire that started at the Idaho Power substation in Melba, Idaho on Monday.

The United States has signed a memorandum of understanding to provide Ukraine with $522 million in funding to strengthen the country’s energy system.

The report states that the grid should expand its capacity 2.5 times by 2050 to support entry of renewable energy resources.

President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is giving Ohio $14 million, which will be used for enhancement of the state’s power grid.

Dominion Energy Inc. executives are asking Virginia regulators to let them build a battery storage facility that will test emerging iron-air and zinc-hybrid chemistries.

The 90.5-mile and 44.5-mile 345 kV lines will connect the Crossroads, Hobbs and Roadrunner substations in New Mexico by 2026.

More than $14 million in federal funds is flowing into Montana to improve the state’s energy grid.

NorthWestern Energy blames squirrels for causing power outages affecting almost 15,000 people.

After travelling for more than two and a half years, the new transformer was finally installed at Tono Substation.

Intelligent power management company Eaton announced the investment of an additional $150 million to increase the supply of its electrical power distribution solutions in North America.