A Year-End Update on Electricity Policy From the Field A review of the most important developments in rate design, distributed energy deployments, and utility business models. The electricity sector’s competitive dynamic completely flipped in 2017. It is now cheaper to build new wind and solar than new coal or often natural gas. In growing swaths … Continue reading A Year-End Update on Electricity Policy From the Field
Portland General Electric eyes spending up to $100M on energy storage With costs plunging, Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) is prepared to pursue a lot more energy storage than the puny amount required under an Oregon mandate. In its quarterly earnings call on Friday, the utility told analysts it will soon propose spending between … Continue reading #Portland_General_Electric eyes spending up to $100M on energy storage
STANFORD ENGINEERS DESIGNED A LOW-COST BATTERY FOR STORING RENEWABLE ENERGY Stanford University researchers have created a new battery that could change the way we look at renewable energy storage forever. The team used urea, an affordable, natural, and readily-available material present in mammal urine and fertilizers to create a battery that is significantly more efficient … Continue reading #STANFORD ENGINEERS DESIGNED A LOW-COST BATTERY FOR STORING RENEWABLE ENERGY
Why surging lithium prices haven’t stopped cost declines for battery energy storage Lithium is one of the hottest commodities in the market today, but analysts see a muted effect on battery costs The price of lithium, one of the key mineral commodities of lithium-ion batteries, has risen dramatically over the past couple of years. Under … Continue reading Why surging #lithium prices haven’t stopped cost declines for battery energy storage
Cuomo’s war on NY energy New York City is set to lose a quarter of its electricity supply by 2021, thanks to Gov. Cuomo’s deal to close the Indian Point nuclear plant. When you’re cursing your even higher ConEd bill — or caught in a blackout, or out looking for a new job, thanks to … Continue reading #Cuomo ’s war on #NY energy
A Republican senator is claiming the GOP killed an energy bill to attend a party A Republican senator is claiming House GOP leaders shelved work on an energy bill just before their holiday recess in order to make it to a fundraiser in New York. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said the House was not able … Continue reading A Republican senator is claiming the GOP killed an energy bill to attend a party
Tesla executive behind energy storage division leaves the company after 7 years Electrek has learned that Mateo Jaramillo, Vice-President at Tesla Energy and one of the early members of the company’s stationary storage effort, is leaving Tesla after 7 years. The company’s energy storage division has undergone a restructuring over the last few months ahead … Continue reading #Tesla executive behind energy storage division leaves the company after 7 years
Colorado’s PUC struggles before increasingly complex dockets The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is an obscure corner of state government filled with arcane dockets and impenetrable black boxes. One attorney — no stranger to courtrooms and the halls of government — came away from his first PUC foray saying the place had an “Alice in Wonderland” … Continue reading #Colorado ’s #PUC struggles before increasingly complex dockets
6 ways the presidential election will influence the electric utility sector From FERC appointments to nukes and natural gas, experts outline how Trump or Clinton could shape the energy narrative ile policy questions have taken a back seat to controversy over the past weeks, the presidential election still offers a stark choice for those in … Continue reading 6 ways the presidential election will influence the electric utility sector
SPP INTEGRATED MARKETPLACE TIMELINE CHANGES SPP is on schedule to implement the new Marketplace timelines per the proposed tariff changes as a part of Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) Order No. 809, which requires modifying the timelines for SPP’s Day-Ahead Market and Day-Ahead Reliability Unit Commitment (RUC) process. The SPP tariff and Marketplace Protocol changes … Continue reading SPP INTEGRATED MARKETPLACE TIMELINE CHANGES
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