Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:45 am BY JARED WILSON [email protected] With temperatures rising electricity consumption is also on the rise as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas announced record breaking numbers this week. In the month of August, despite being just 13 days in, only two days have been under the triple digit mark, … Continue reading Rising temperatures, rising electrical demand
By Dave Byknish Published: August 13, 2015, 3:26 pm Updated: August 13, 2015, 5:33 pm AUSTIN (KXAN) – Another scorcher in the Austin-area is leaving the Electric Reliability Council of Texas in a severe state. ERCOT is experiencing extremely high electricity demand. Operating reserves have dropped below the target threshold of 2,300 megawatts. ERCOT is … Continue reading ERCOT reserves drop below 2,300 MW, conservation requested
EAGLEVILLE, Pa., March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — PJM Interconnection’s wholesale electric energy and capacity markets produced competitive results during 2014, according to the 2014 State of the Market Report for PJM, released today by Monitoring Analytics, LLC, the Independent Market Monitor for PJM. The Independent Market Monitor, Joseph Bowring, announced findings of the report today. … Continue reading Market Monitor Finds PJM Wholesale Electricity Markets Competitive
By Journal Staff Date: 8/13/2015 at 14:14:49 RENSSELAER, N.Y. — The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit that operates New York state’s power grid, recently appointed Douglas L. Chapman as VP and chief information officer (CIO). As CIO, Chapman will lead NYISO’s information technology (IT) department. The unit delivers IT products and services … Continue reading People news: NYISO appoints Chapman as CIO
Updated by David Roberts on August 13, 2015, 9:00 a.m. ET How can we get more wind and solar power integrated into energy grids? Meeting the long-term challenge — getting to, say, 75 percent of renewable electricity or higher — will require technological innovation and sustained declines in cost. It’s exciting to think about. But … Continue reading California’s plan to let solar panels Voltron together into a “virtual power plant”
by TERRY JARRETT 12 Aug 2015 Well, President Obama’s EPA has gone and done it. For over a year, energy experts, utility regulators, electric grid operators, and everyone else who understands how the power sector works have criticized the EPA’s proposed “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), saying it will increase electricity prices and jeopardize the reliability … Continue reading JARRETT: EPA’S CHANGES TO POWER GRID COULD WRECK THE ECONOMY
by Katie Fehrenbacher AUGUST 12, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT One of the largest power companies in the U.S. is doubling down on funding the deployment of fuel cells by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy. Fuel cells are large devices that generate electricity through a chemical reaction and are usually installed close to a building that … Continue reading Big power company Constellation to finance Bloom Energy’s fuel cells
Washington (Platts)–12 Aug 2015 244 pm EDT/1844 GMT The heat wave hovering over Texas is expected to fuel strong demand midweek and was also driving power prices back into triple-digit territory. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is forecasting peak demand on Wednesday at 68,489 MW. Tuesday’s peak came in at 69,614 MW, just shy … Continue reading Hot weather keeps ERCOT demand strong, power prices soaring
Updated: Wed 6:41 PM, Aug 12, 2015 SHERMAN, Texas — For the first time ever this past Monday afternoon the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) surpassed 69,000 megawatts twice in a matter of hours. Read the full article at News 12 KXII.
City officials released 20,000 shade balls into the Los Angeles Reservoir Monday, the final step in a $34.5 million water quality protection project. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project involved the release of 96 million shade balls into the reservoir at the Van Norman Complex in Sylmar. Read the full article at … Continue reading Los Angeles dumps 96 million plastic balls into a reservoir
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