Utilities

Drones checked 28 miles of Southern Company transmission facilities near Bay Minette recently.

Mark Crosswhite, CEO of Alabama Power since 2014 and an employee of the company since 2006, will retire effective Dec. 31.

Lightsource bp and the Alabama Municipal Electric Authority celebrated the start of Black Bear Solar, the state’s largest solar farm.

ADEM has announced $348 million in grants and loans to public water and sewer systems, with more to come.

Altaworx LLC, a voice-over-internet-protocol telephone systems provider, has been named Small Business of the Year by the Mobile Chamber.

Velox LLC has opened a new fiber splicing division in Huntsville and named Robert Queen splicing division manager and Charles McElroy Sr. safety director.

The startup’s software will streamline regulatory compliance for the utility industry, say co-founders Yuval Lubowich and Hudson Hollister.

Alabama Power Foundation has awarded a grant to fund equipment for Faulkner University College of Health Sciences’ pediatric and adult therapy gyms.

EnTech Solutions installed an energy microgrid at the James A. Lane Club in Huntsville, one of the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Alabama locations.

The plan works in concert with the state’s automakers as they begin adding electric vehicles to their fleets.