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RMEL Report
Education and Upcoming Events
Workshop: An Introduction to the Electric Utility --- Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m. MST (Denver, CO) FEBRUARY 2023 SAFETY ROUNDTABLE --- Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. MST (Westminster, CO) 2023 RMEL SAFETY CONFERENCE --- March 23rd – March 24th, 2023 (Tempe, AZ). Stay tuned for more event details and information coming soon! TRANSMISSION & SUBSTATION RENEWABLES CONFERENCE --- March 28th – March 29th, 2023 (Westminster, CO). Register now and stay tuned for more event details and information coming soon! 2023 RMEL DISTRIBUTION ENGINEERS WORKSHOP --- April 2023 (Final Dates TBD) - Stay tuned for more event details and information coming soon! 2023 RMEL SPRING CONFERENCE --- May 22nd – May 24th, 2023 (Kansas City, MO). Stay tuned for more event details and information coming soon! 2023 RMEL FALL CONVENTION --- September 2023 (Final Dates TBD) - (Phoenix, AZ). Stay tuned for more event details and information coming soon! 
RMEL Member Information
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RMEL Champions is a prestigious group of RMEL supporters with access to useful and beneficial promotional opportunities. Thank you, 2022 RMEL Champions!
Industry Information
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced $20 million in funding for projects that will improve stakeholder access to region-specific information and technical assistance regarding the commercial deployment of carbon capture, transport, conversion, and storage technologies across the United States.
The programs are intended to help accelerate private-sector investment, spur advancements in monitoring and reporting practices for carbon management technologies, and provide grants to state and local governments to procure and use products developed from captured carbon emissions.
A group of lawmakers led by Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., is urging the government to authorize $2.1 billion in disaster supplemental funding to address the shortage of electrical transformers and complementary grid security technologies through the Defense Production Act.
When it comes to the grid, “we have solar panels, we have wind turbines, we have battery storage in the form of lithium-ion batteries, and we can roll these things out to clean up the grid. But we don't have commercial technology for the other half, which, for the grid, is long-duration storage."
The United States has gone all-in on climate and clean energy funding. The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) $370 billion in emissions reduction funding, the CHIPS and Science Act’s $70 billion in zero-carbon technology research funding, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA) $95 billion in grid and electric vehicle (EV) charging funding are the largest-ever investment in nationwide decarbonization.
Member Announcements
Black Hills Corp. announced its subsidiary, Wyodak Resources Development Corp., completed a new contract to continue providing fuel supply to the 402-megawatt Wyodak Power Plant. Wyodak Resources currently provides fuel supply to five on-site, mine-mouth coal-fired generating facilities near Gillette, Wyoming, including the Wyodak Power Plant.
Basin Electric sent a letter supporting a funding proposal by Membrane Technology & Research (MTR) for U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funds. DOE issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement for integrated carbon capture, transport, and storage systems. The funds would be used for a $5 million supplemental front-end engineering design (FEED) study.
Evergy, Inc. (NYSE: EVRG) announced it will transfer its stock exchange listing from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the Nasdaq Global Select Market, effective as of the opening of trading on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. Evergy’s common stock will continue to trade under the ticker symbol “EVRG.”
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will move consideration of flexible partial requirements memberships between not-for-profit power supplier Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and its members to a hearing process, following efforts to settle the issue in a timelier manner that were supported by a significant majority of Tri-State’s utility members and Tri-State, unopposed by FERC trial staff, but contested by utility member United Power.
White Paper
A new study finds that the health benefits associated with wind power could more than quadruple if operators turned down output from the most polluting fossil-fuel-based power plants when energy from wind is available. However, compared to wealthier communities, disadvantaged communities would reap a smaller share of these benefits.
MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, flexible, durable, lightweight solar cells that can be stuck to any surface. Glued to high-strength fabric, the solar cells are only one-hundredth the weight of conventional cells while producing about 18 times more power-per-kilogram.
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