Meghan O'Brien

Karla Hernandez-Torrijos created postcards to represent personal relationships with the great plains, showcasing her as the student storyteller in residence.

Hernandez Torrijos, a junior UNL student, wants to create an installation at the Great Plains Art Museum of postcards, written on by people expressing their own experience of the Great Plains.

On March 29, 2024, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) released the Track 2 final proposal for its Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE) initiative. The proposed changes in the IPE proposal aim to address the “unprecedented and unsustainable interconnection request volumes” in the CAISO. CAISO proposes to adopt a zonal approach that prioritizes project interconnection in areas with existing or planned transmission capacity, to cap the number of projects permitted to proceed into the study process at 150% of the available and planned transmission capacity in specific zones, and adopt scoring criteria for eligibility and prioritization in the interconnection study process.

Rutabagas Comfort Food, pictured on Monday, April 15, 2024, in Lincoln, Nebraska Photo by Justin Diep

Jenni Bruning Brown, a University of Nebraska alum, has returned to Lincoln from California and brought her passion for health and wellbeing with her.

The California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) recently issued Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE) final proposal provides heightened...

In recent years, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus has seen multiple reported sexual assaults. Though prevention and recovery resources are available for students year-round, the resources and programs are emphasized during April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

On Thursday, May 9, 2024, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued an addendum to its Interconnection Process Enhancements (IPE)...

On May 13, 2024, at a special transmission reform meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued Order No. 1920...

CAISO’s Interconnection Process Enhancements proposal faces protest at FERC from independent power producers, clean energy organizations, and renewable energy developers. Challengers claim that CAISO’s scoring criteria provide load serving entities undue influence and may violate principles of open access.