JACKSON — Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) has selected SmartSynch Inc.’s Residential SmartMeter for 231,000 unit point-to-point deployment to residential customers throughout the utility’s Texas market.
Terms were not disclosed.
This marks the first mass residential deployment of smart metering solutions that use a public wireless network as the communications backbone, according to SmartSynch.
TNMP’s decision was propelled by [...] [...]
ATLANTA — Southern Co. is accepting $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees from the federal government, setting the stage for the construction of the first new nuclear reactors in the United States in a generation.
The loan guarantees are contingent on the project in Burke County winning approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Southern Co. CEO [...] [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. — Acadiana utilities say that although they avoided rolling blackouts last week, there’s still worry about the rest of the summer.
Emily Pennel is spokeswoman for the Southwest Power Pool, a nonprofit group that regulates transmission lines in eight states including Louisiana. She tells The Advocate that the group is keeping a close eye [...] [...]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An audit shows the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was overbilled $683,000 by a contractor who provided engineering services.
An online summary of the audit by the TVA Office of Inspector General recommends that TVA try to recover the overbilling and excessive costs under two contracts between October 2004 and December 2008.
A TVA inspector [...] [...]
JACKSON, Tenn. ― The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) board of directors agreed yesterday to extend a program that will allow TVA to reduce peak power demand by up to 560 megawatts.
According to the utility, the board’s action, during a meeting at Lane College in Jackson, Tenn., will effectively reduce TVA’s electricity requirements during periods of [...] [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Entergy New Orleans’ CEO and president Rod West has been promoted to chief administrative officer for Entergy Corp. as part of a sweeping leadership reorganization.
Entergy Corp. chief executive and chairman Wayne Leonard said yesterday that West’s replacement would be Charles Rice, who served as city attorney and chief administrative officer for former [...] [...]
NORTH MISSISSIPPI — The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) says its fuel costs are up due to higher demand in colder than normal temperatures and that means monthly residential bills will increase between $2.50 and $5.50.
TVA said in a Feb. 10 statement the increase takes effect in billing periods that begin March 1. The upward fuel [...] [...]
HANCOCK COUNTY — NASA’s Stennis Space Center Mississippi is lighting a new onsite parking facility with solar-LED technology. As part of the Stennis’ new Cryogenics Control Center facility, the car park will be equipped with EverGEN 1520 solar-LED parking lot lights from Carmanah Technologies.
Recently showcased at the LIGHTFAIR International tradeshow and conference in New York, [...] [...]
JACKSON — Central District Public Service Commissioner Lynn Posey announced that the Public Service Commission (PSC) has issued orders to Entergy Mississippi Inc., which Posey says will reduce customer rates by $1.91 per 1,000 kilowatt hours for average residential customers.
Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley, however, says he cast the sole vote blocking a [...] [...]
