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PacifiCorp’s 2025 Plan Focuses on Renewables, Storage, and Extended Coal Use

PacifiCorp, a major utility serving customers across the western United States, has released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), outlining ambitious goals for renewable energy expansion and grid modernization while navigating the challenges of coal phase-outs and shifting federal policies. The plan emphasizes the company’s strategy to add 4.7 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar capacity and 1.7 GW of energy storage by 2031. However, the utility also faces significant challenges from federal policy changes...

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Clean Energy Stakeholders Push to Preserve IRA Tax Credits

As the U.S. energy landscape shifts towards cleaner, renewable sources, stakeholders in the solar, storage, and broader clean energy sectors are intensifying their lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., aiming to secure the future of critical tax incentives introduced under the Inflation Reduction...


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Case Study: Rapid Changes in Bushing Health

IntroductionContinuous online monitoring of bushings provides real-time information which can result in the early detection of a possible failure. Challenge: A Major AlarmA prominent U.S. utility was looking for a way to improve system reliability for their 138kV assets. They researched and...

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Smart Grid Network Best Practices

The Smart Grid is changing the way utilities generate, manage, and deliver electricity. The benefits are numerous as Smart Grid technologies help utilities save time, money, resources and improve customer service. If on the verge of Smart Grid innovation, electric utilities should follow the...



Community Renewable Energy and Reliable Service

This past winter, extreme weather cost the United States more than $5 billion in property damage, closed businesses and travel disruptions. Early indications also forecast a viciously cold winter for the 2015-16 season. With this extreme weather, many assume they will suffer power loss. In fact, a...

Opening the Door to Grid Modernization

IESO stays ahead of Ontario’s rapidly changing marketplace

BY PHILL FELTHAM, Editor-in-Chief
Electricity Today Magazine

Grid modernization is a buzz term used by regulators, utilities, and other participants within North America’s power sector. Modernizing the power grid is the proposed answer to North America’s aging electricity infrastructure problem, which, in fact, has become a pandemic worldwide. Some visualize grid modernization as a collective sector/government effort to replace aging equipment such as power transformers and transmission towers with new up-to-date equipment. However, realizing this vision is a challenge in itself. Massive costs are involved in replacing old equipment.

Many...