Wyoming wind farm making same power with 80% fewer turbines CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Bigger, more efficient equipment will allow an electric utility to redevelop Wyoming’s first commercial wind farm so it produces the same amount of power with far fewer turbines, an example of the growing feasibility of renewable energy in the top U.S. … Continue reading #Wyoming wind farm making same power with 80% fewer turbines
Electric Utilities: Get Over the Fear of this Four-Letter Acronym Utility management and regulators have endured a long and colorful relationship with monopoly regulation. Much of that time was spent by experts on both sides honing their skills at a single principal regulatory approach: cost of service-based regulation. However, times are “a changing,” and some … Continue reading Electric Utilities: Get Over the Fear of this Four-Letter Acronym
Gravity over lithium-ion: SoftBank invests $110 million in Swiss storage company Energy Vault The investment of Japan-based SoftBank, which has made a name for itself by pouring money into technology companies such as Uber, WeWork and Slack, further validates the growth of the energy storage industry. “The size of SoftBank investment in Energy Vault is … Continue reading Gravity over lithium-ion: SoftBank invests $110 million in Swiss storage company Energy Vault
How Electric Cars and Renewables Could Beat Oil Solar and wind sent European utilities into financial disarray, and U.S. utilities are facing a similar fate. Are global oil companies next? A new report from one of the world’s biggest banks, BNP Paribas, says that solar and wind paired with electric cars provide up to seven … Continue reading How Electric Cars and Renewables Could Beat Oil
Is a California solar+storage boom about to happen? CAISO has warned state regulators that there could be a 4.7 GW capacity shortfall in 2022, in the early evening hours of the annual peak demand events of September. The grid operator has suggested alteration of water cooling laws, as well as increased procurement of resources. The … Continue reading Is a #California solar + storage boom about to happen?
Bloomberg: Texas makes a case for new plants Bloomberg is reporting that Texas’ generators had a profitable week as intense heat sent electricity prices shot up to unprecedented levels, briefly surpassing a US$9000 a MWh ceiling. That put producers more than three quarters of the way toward profits that the state’s power market monitor says … Continue reading #Texas makes a case for new plants
How long will NH continue to have fossil fuel generators? Granite Shore Power receives ISO-NE payments simply for keeping power plants available Will New Hampshire continue to burn coal and oil to produce electricity? And for how long? Those are questions for Granite Shore Power, a conglomerate of 18 companies that in January 2018 bought … Continue reading How long will NH continue to have fossil fuel generators?
As Market Fault Lines Emerge, Where Could Stranded Costs Develop? S&P Global Market Intelligence recently highlighted the possibility that stranded costs in the electric sector could emerge again, 20 years after a wholesale restructuring of the industry that was intended to mitigate this type of risk. A recent S&P Global Market Intelligence webinar, Grid Transformation … Continue reading As Market Fault Lines Emerge, Where Could Stranded Costs Develop?
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BASF and NGK Partner to Sell Stationary Energy Storage Batteries BASF New Business GmbH (BNB) and NGK announced a sales partnership agreement that gives BNB non-exclusive rights to sell NGK’s NAS® batteries (sodium-sulfur (NaS)-based batteries) via BASF’s global channels. NGK’s NAS battery is the first commercialized megawatt-class battery which has the capacity to store large … Continue reading #BASF and #NGK Partner to Sell Stationary Energy Storage Batteries
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