Southwest Power Pool Expands Electric Grid Management to 14 States Southwest Power Pool, a regional power grid operator that ensures access to reliable sources of electricity at competitive rates, has expanded its management of electric reliability coordination to include the Integrated System transmission system, adding more than 5,000 megawatts of peak demand and 9,500 miles … Continue reading #Southwest_Power_Pool Expands Electric Grid Management to 14 States→
Smart microgrids to help data centers, farm communities use locally produced power Strategic use of locally produced, renewable energy through smart microgrids can reduce power costs and help prevent outages, according to assistant professors Wei Sun and Reinaldo Tonkoski of the electrical engineering and computer science department. They are developing the smart power management technologies … Continue reading Smart microgrids to help data centers, farm communities use locally produced power→
FERC Approves NV Energy Request to Join California Energy Imbalance Market On May 14, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued an order addressing NV Energy’s proposed tariff changes for joining the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) Energy Imbalance Market (“EIM”) in Docket No. ER15-1196 (the “Order”). In its order, FERC conditionally accepted NV … Continue reading FERC Approves #NV_Energy Request to Join California Energy Imbalance Market #EIM→
Texas passes bill giving PUC wind transmission oversight; bill to end RPS dies A Texas bill to give the state Public Utility Commission oversight of transmission projects designed to export wind power from or into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas region is headed to the governor’s desk after being approved by the state’s House … Continue reading Texas passes bill giving #PUC wind transmission oversight; bill to end RPS dies→
Not Grandpa’s Grid I recently participated in a web colloquy with nuclear proponents about the future of baseload power (as represented by nuclear plants that have to operate around the clock) and the “problems” with integrating large amounts of renewable power into the grid. Their big bugaboo: variability. Renewable resources do not operate 24-7. They … Continue reading Not Grandpa’s Grid→
Electric giant Southern Co. foresees big uses for drones Electric utility giant Southern Co. sees big potential for using drones. The company (NYSE: SO), which announced May 7 that it will begin investigating how to use drones, says in comments filed with the Federal Aviation Administration that “small-UAS [unmanned-aircraft systems] applications provide electric utilities exciting … Continue reading Electric giant #Southern_Co. foresees big uses for #drones→
MISO, SPP settling spats, working together on 4 new transmission projects The most recent MISO-SPP dispute was sparked when power flows between MISO’s northern region and a new, southern region caused complaints last spring from SPP that MISO was moving more than the contracted 1,000 MW over the SPP footprint. But now it appears that … Continue reading MISO, SPP settling spats, working together on 4 new transmission projects→
CenterPoint files to build $300M transmission line to serve Houston CenterPoint Energy submitted a study to the the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Regional Planning Group in July 2013 proposing the line to meet the critical need of the Houston Region. ERCOT endorsed the plan in April 2014. Representatives from CenterPoint Energy and POWER … Continue reading #CenterPoint files to build $300M transmission line to serve #Houston→
Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid Transmission grids are one of the biggest bottlenecks to growing the world’s share of wind and solar power. Transmission networks built to push power from central power plants at steady outputs, along undisturbed paths, aren’t well suited for cutting back or increasing throughput … Continue reading Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid→
The Coming Super Grid Build-Out The U.S. government is finally getting serious about upgrading the country’s crucial energy and electric infrastructure. A new first-of-its-kind report, known as the Quadrennial Energy Review, issued by a White House task force in late April, has identified the need to spend billions on replacing aging gas pipelines and modernizing … Continue reading The Coming Super Grid Build-Out→
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