AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoSolar Expansion: A new 30-acre, 5MW solar field opened just north of Las Vegas, letting PNM customers subscribe for locally generated power even without rooftop panels. Grid Reliability: Outages hit thousands in multiple places—Colorado’s Pikes Peak region after a transmission line interruption, and New Jersey after storms knocked out power for thousands. Turkey’s Power Mix: Wind and solar overtook coal in Turkey for the first time in April, with renewables at 71% of generation as rainfall boosted hydro. Nuclear Momentum: Nebraska’s legislature-backed next-gen nuclear siting study narrowed options to four communities, while NASA is soliciting industry proposals for lunar power and in-space manufacturing tech. Costs & Policy: Pennsylvania’s regulated electric “price to compare” is set to rise June 1, and New Jersey bills are staying high even when usage doesn’t—because baseline supply rates reset upward. Tech & Hardware: Schneider Electric expanded its EasyPact CVS C4 circuit breaker range for East Africa, and South Korea’s SEMIPOWER is pushing wide-bandgap power module tech.
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