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Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Rise 6% in Latest Sustainability Report
A display promoting Amazon’s sustainability efforts at the Bloomberg Green Seattle event yesterday. Amazon was the prime sponsor of the three-day conference. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Amazon recently released its 2024 Amazon Sustainability Report, showing that...
Smart Energy Use: Electricity usage projected for the future
Public Power Association's graphic of electricity usage shows as usage increases, energy consumption decreases overall. Read more and see the 30-year projections: https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/how-much-electricity-will-we-use-30-years
Public Power Forward Summit, Nov. 2019
The Pubic Power Forward Summit, held Nov. 21-22, in Nashville, is hosted by the American Public Power Association. The summit provides the opportunity for industry partners, strategic thinkers, and subject matter experts to discover new industry trends, technologies,...
Pursuing an energy career? DEED scholarship application opens Dec. 1
The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) program funds research, pilot projects, and education to improve the operations and services of public power utilities. The DEED Program offers four types of funding for...
WA State and PSCAA moving forward on clean fuels policy
Developments in clean fuels policy is moving forward in Washington State with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). This week's clean air conference included discussion on regional health impacts and prospects for statewide policy in 2020. PSCAA’s work will spur...
Hydropower utilization in Washington and the U.S.
For more than 100 years, hydropower has translated energy from falling water into electricity at an efficiency rate that exceeds 90% on many projects. Hydro also provides more of the services necessary for reliability than any other resource, including operating...
Energy education experts participate in international renewable energy best practices
Shoreline's Director of Clean Energy Technology, Louise Petruzzella, traveled to Germany recently to take part in an international learning exchange sponsored by the National Science Foundation Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE). A...
Next-Gen Grid Architecture: a breakdown of smart grid systems
In a series of articles about smart grid systems, a primer explains grid coordination involving the different systems that make up grid distribution and delivery: Next-Gen Grid Architecture: A grid coordination primer One of the pressing issues facing the power...
Search for Public Power jobs
Did you know you can search for jobs by state on the American Public Power Association website? Here are current job listings for Washington. Try your search at: jobs.publicpower.org/jobs
HydroVision International keynote: Hydropower boosts grid support to wind and solar
At the annual HydroVision International conference, held July 23-25 in Portland OR, keynote speaker Janet Harron, COO of Bonneville Power, stressed the importance of telling the hydropower story. Harron said that hydropower is able to provide grid support to wind and...