According to forecasts from the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), electricity generated from coal in 2015 will see a decline of 8.2% compared to 2014, yet natural gas generation is set to rise by 14.5%. For 2016 however, the EIA projects coal generation will see a small increase of 1.4% and natural gas generation will … Continue reading US EIA: short-term US electricity generation, consumption and prices
September 14, 2015 SPP is preparing for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan by beginning outreach to state officials and planning to form a task force under its Strategic Planning Committee. The RTO scheduled a two-hour webinar to kick off the effort on Friday, Sept. 18. Lanny Nickell, SPP’s engineering vice president and point … Continue reading SPP Ramping Up for EPA Carbon Rule
September 14, 2015 By Suzanne Herel VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Members debated four potential changes to the $1,000/MWh energy offer cap last week at a specially called meeting of the Markets and Reliability Committee, failing to agree on any one — or even which should be the main and alternate proposals. Read the full article … Continue reading PJM Stakeholders Weigh 4 Options on Offer Cap; No Agreement in Sight
Washington (Platts)–14 Sep 2015 1225 pm EDT/1625 GMT Wind farms in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ footprint set a new output record of 11,467 MW at 10:56 pm CDT Sunday (0356 GMT Monday), the grid operator said Monday. Read the full article at Platts, McGraw Hill Financial.
August 17, 2015 By Tom Kleckner LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — While SPP says it is continuing to analyze the 1,500 pages in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, some stakeholders in the RTO’s 14-state footprint wasted no time taking action. In the first of several expected legal challenges, state attorneys general from half of … Continue reading SPP, MISO, PJM States Join Opposition to Clean Power Plan
by Harry Weber August 17, 2015 — 1:12 PM EDT Updated on August 17, 2015 — 3:26 PM EDT New York City’s first official heat wave since 2013 boosted power prices, as demand rose to the highest level in almost three weeks on the largest U.S. grid. Use on the 13-state PJM Interconnection LLC network … Continue reading New York’s First Heat Wave in 2 Years Sparks Power Price Surge
Posted August 17, 2015 Source: EIA, based on Electricity Reliability Council of Texas. Note: Data for 2015 are preliminary. During the recent heat wave in Texas, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operator of the electric grid covering most of the state, set a new record for electricity use when demand for electricity … Continue reading Texas Electric Grid Serves Record-High Power Demand
August 17, 2015 By Tom Kleckner It had been four years since ERCOT last set a new demand record, but the Texas grid has been making up for lost time since August began. In the last two weeks, ERCOT has set three new hourly peaks, topping 69,000 MW in demand for the first time ever … Continue reading High Temps, Population Growth Push ERCOT to Demand Records
August 17, 2015 By William Opalka ISO-NE and the New England Power Pool Participants Committee want to begin using the RTO’s system-wide sloped demand curve in their Annual Reconfiguration Auctions. The organizations submitted proposed Tariff changes to FERC that would apply the curve — first used in the ninth Forward Capacity Auction earlier this year … Continue reading ISO-NE: Use New Demand Curve in Reconfiguration Auctions
August 17, 2015 By William Opalka When the Clean Power Plan was released last year, New York’s grid operator was concerned with its impact despite the state’s membership in a regional carbon trading regime. Reliance on coal generation had threated reliability, in the view of NYISO, so changes needed to be made, even though New … Continue reading Northeast on Way to Compliance with Clean Power Plan
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