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RMEL Report
Education and Upcoming Events
DISTRIBUTION ENGINEERING & RESILIENCY WORKSHOP - March 27th-28th, 2024 (Salt Lake City, UT) 2024 SAFETY CONFERENCE - April 2nd-4th, 2024 (Tempe, AZ) 2024 RMEL SPRING CONFERENCE - May 20th-22nd, 2024 (Denver, CO) 2024 RMEL FOUNDATION GOLF TOURNAMENT - June 25th, 2024 (Littleton, CO) TRANSMISSION, SUBSTATION, POWER DELIVERY PROJECTS CONFERENCE - June 26th-27th, 2024 (Westminster, CO) 2024 RMEL FALL CONVENTION - September 16th-18th, 2024 (Austin, TX) 
RMEL Member Information
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Industry Information
The EV sector and utility companies must stand up “uniform programs across the country to enable fast, reliable installation of EV chargers,” Blink Charging Chief Technology Officer Harjinder Bhade said. Those could include tariffs that align charging with clean energy generation and the potential for EVs to send power back to the grid, he said.
The Senate held the first congressional hearing on geologic hydrogen, a promising new form of clean energy generated naturally underground, that’s attracted growing interest and investment over the past year.
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. has developed new rules to address unregistered bulk power system-connected inverter-based resources, such as wind, solar and battery storage facilities, and plans to file them with federal regulators in early March, the reliability organization said.
Member Announcements
It’s no surprise to Luci Reyes that Arizona Public Service (APS) has been named a 2024 Military Friendly® Employer. With the support she’s received first as an intern and now as an employee, Luci believes the company values service members and their talents.
A nationwide study revealed that Lincoln Electric System’s rates continue to rank among the lowest in the country based on 2022 data. LES’ annual Competitive Market Study determined that the utility ranked 1st for the lowest residential all-in price and 8th best for the lowest average all-in price among 87 cities surveyed nationwide when including all retail sectors.
This starts the process of adding generation to serve the rapidly increasing load coming to the state. NPPD Economic Development Manager Nicole Sedlacek noted, “There has been a recent and sharp increase in new ag, ag industrial, and data center loads siting their facilities in Nebraska, due in part to the affordable and reliable electric service provided by the public power entities that serve Nebraska.”
 A regional utility collaboration in Northern Colorado recently calculated results for 2023, reporting that about 1,700 homes and 500 businesses collectively reduced carbon emissions by more than 6,800 tons through various programs and initiatives, based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s emission rates for the Rocky Mountain region.
United Power’s core responsibility to its members as an electric cooperative is ensuring consistently reliable power, which means the lights stay on and the power continues flowing whenever you need it to be available. Several years ago, the co-op’s operations and engineering staff began coordinating the implementation of an innovative system maintenance strategy.
White Paper
Large scale-power outages caused by tropical cyclones can be prevented almost entirely if a small but critical set of power lines is protected against storm damages, a new study finds. Scientists developed a new method that can be used to identify those critical lines and increase the system's resilience.
There's a downside to "smart" devices: They can be hacked. That makes the electric grid increasingly chock-full of devices that interact with one another and make critical decisions, vulnerable to bad actors who might try to turn off the power, damage the system or worse. But smart devices are a big part of our future as the world moves more toward renewable energy and the many new devices to manage it.
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