Texas utility regulators give initial ‘no’ to Oncor sale to NextEra Florida-based NextEra Energy’s proposed purchase of Texas transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery hit a snag Thursday as Texas regulators called the $18.7 billion deal not in the public interest. According to the Dallas Morning News, all three regulators on the Texas Public Utility Commission … Continue reading #Texas utility regulators give initial ‘no’ to #Oncor sale to #NextEra→
ERCOT sets record wind output Friday The Electric Reliability Council of Texas set a wind-output record of 16,141 MW Friday night, it reported on Saturday in its daily wind integration report. ERCOT said the record was set at 8:56 pm CDT Friday and wind accounted for about 39.5% of the total power demand at that … Continue reading ERCOT sets record wind output Friday→
Wind surge in ERCOT prompts PUC ‘concern’ about nonmarket uplift Hearing about the continuing surge of wind generation in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a state regulator on Tuesday expressed “concern” about too many out-of-market actions to ensure local reliability threatened by a sudden drop in wind output. Early in the ERCOT Board of … Continue reading Wind surge in ERCOT prompts PUC ‘concern’ about nonmarket uplift→
Lubbock muni to buy 400 MW from Southwestern Public Service Southwestern Public Service has agreed to sell 400 MW to Lubbock Power & Light as part of the municipal utility’s planned shift from the Southwest Power Pool to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. SPS, an Xcel Energy utility subsidiary, will sell the energy and … Continue reading #Lubbock muni to buy 400 MW from #Southwestern_Public_Service→
Report: Exelon’s Texas merchant subsidiary looks to address debt Exelon’s merchant power subsidiary may be the latest indicator of systemic problems in organized power markets. Reuters reports that the company has hired advisers to help it address debt, following a trend of other dim signs for independent power producers. EGTP owns five power plants in … Continue reading Report: #Exelon ‘s Texas merchant subsidiary looks to address debt→
Tech company turning natural gas flares into electricity in Eagle Ford Clean energy technology being deployed and tested in the Eagle Ford Shale may soon change how oil companies think about natural gas flares. Silicon Valley-based Alphabet Energy Inc. has installed two thermoelectric generators that convert waste heat from flares into electricity at a pair … Continue reading Tech company turning natural gas flares into #electricity in Eagle Ford→
Wind Energy Takes Flight In The Heart Of Texas Oil Country Georgetown, Texas, is a conservative town in a conservative state. So it may come as something of a surprise that it’s one of the first cities in America to be entirely powered by renewable energy. Mayor Dale Ross, a staunch Republican who attended President … Continue reading Wind Energy Takes Flight In The Heart Of Texas Oil Country→
Texas City Leads The Way On Renewable Energy This week we’re going to spend some time in a part of the U.S. that is leading the way on renewable energy. And this place is at the center of conservative, red-state, Republican America. We’re talking about Texas. Texas produces more wind energy than the next three … Continue reading Texas City Leads The Way On Renewable Energy→
E.ON Brings Energy Storage To West Texas Wind Farms E.ON North America is building two energy storage projects, dubbed Texas Waves, at the sites of the company’s Pyron and Inadale wind farms, which are currently spinning in west Texas. Built in partnership with Greensmith Energy, Texas Waves will consist of two 9.9 MW short-duration energy … Continue reading E.ON Brings Energy Storage To West Texas Wind Farms→
CenterPoint project aims to bring congestion relief to power, prices t was an usually hot Texas day in late February and, per usual, Houston was causing trouble. By late afternoon on Feb. 22, temperatures around the state had climbed into the 90s, and the demand for power surged. In Houston, where midday wholesale power prices … Continue reading #CenterPoint project aims to bring #congestion relief to power, prices→
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