Federal Emergency Management Agency to Host Public Meeting On Preliminary Observations of the Palo Verde Generating Station Exercise
Federal Emergency Management Agency to Host Public Meeting On Preliminary Observations of the Palo Verde Generating Station Exercise OAKLAND, Calif. – The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region 9 National Preparedness Division, Technological Hazards Branch announced that a public meeting will be held on March 7, 2025 in Buckeye, Arizona. The public meeting will present FEMA’s and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) preliminary evaluation observations on the performance of the state of Arizona, and the county of Maricopa, during a Plume and Post-Plume Phase exercise. The full-scale exercise is conducted at Palo Verde Generating Station (PVGS), and at State
Solar, battery storage to lead new U.S. generating capacity additions in 2025
We expect 63 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid in 2025 in our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report. This amount represents an almost 30% increase from 2024 when 48.6 GW of capacity was installed, the largest capacity installation in a single year since 2002. Together, solar and battery storage account for 81% of the expected total capacity additions, with solar making up over 50% of the increase.