Renewable energy is a California success story In 2011, Solyndra, a California-based solar panel manufacturer, defaulted on a $535-million federal loan and went bankrupt. Critics argued that this proved renewable energy was hopelessly impractical and expensive and that federal and state policies to support it were a waste of taxpayer money. Americans for Prosperity, a … Continue reading #Renewable #energy is a California success story
PG&E Wins Right to Develop Two New Transmission Substations SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 12, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) is pleased to have been selected by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) to build, own and operate two new electric substations in California’s Central Valley and South Bay. The new … Continue reading #PG&E Wins Right to Develop Two New Transmission Substations
A Year After Launch, Major Solar Plant Apparently Running at Half Capacity More than a year after the formal launch of the nation’s largest existing solar tower power plant, its operators seem to be having trouble keeping it all the way online. According to records provided by California’s grid operator, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating … Continue reading A Year After Launch, Major Solar Plant Apparently Running at Half Capacity
Puget Sound Energy to join Calif. power market in October 2016 (Reuters) – Puget Sound Energy [PSPLP.UL] will join the California power market in October 2016, the Bellevue, Washington- based company and the California Independent System Operator (ISO) announced on Thursday. California ISO, which operates the power grid in California and parts of Nevada, said … Continue reading Puget Sound Energy to join Calif. power market in October 2016
Barbara Grady Tuesday, March 3, 2015 – 3:05am Despite warnings that adding transportation fuels to California’s cap and trade system would wreak havoc on the market and hurt the state’s economy, the first auction to include emissions from cars, trucks, ships and the like officially sold out last week. Read the full article at GreenBiz.
From the February 24, 2015 issue of Public Power Daily Originally published February 23, 2015 By Paul Ciampoli News Director Independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) recently submitted reports to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on fuel assurance issues in response to a directive from the commission issued in late 2014. Read … Continue reading Grid operators address fuel assurance issues in filings made at FERC
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today announced that it is actively bidding a group of energy storage systems and electric vehicle fleets as one resource directly into the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) energy markets. These markets include those that address short-term imbalances in electricity supply caused by such … Continue reading SDG&E Integrates Electric Vehicles And Energy Storage Systems Into California’s Energy And Ancillary Service Markets
How the West’s new Energy Imbalance Market is building a smarter energy system One of the great speculations about the Western grid has been tested and proved true. A new report shows the just-initiated energy imbalance market (EIM) linking the California grid and the seven state Pacificorp system saved almost $6 million in its first … Continue reading How the West’s new Energy Imbalance Market is building a smarter energy system
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