Just How Unreliable Is The U.S. Electricity Grid? Not only does the U.S. suffer more blackouts than any other developed nation… The number of U.S. power outages lasting more than an hour has increased steadily for the past decade. That’s according to federal databases at the Department of Energy (DOE) and the North American Electric … Continue reading Just How Unreliable Is The U.S. Electricity Grid?→
Time-Varying Electricity Pricing The Environmental Defense Fund’s senior manager for Grid Modernization posted a blog entry this week about the importance of time-varying electricity pricing to reduce usage at peak hours of the day – such as hot summer days when consumers come home from work and turn on their air conditioners. Across the US, … Continue reading Time-Varying Electricity Pricing→
Bracing for a big power grid attack: ‘One is too many’ About once every four days, part of the nation’s power grid — a system whose failure could leave millions in the dark — is struck by a cyber or physical attack, a USA TODAY analysis of federal energy records finds. Although the repeated security … Continue reading Bracing for a big power grid attack: ‘One is too many’→
March 12, 2015 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time WASHINGTON & KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nodal Exchange and Innotap announced today an agreement to leverage Nodal Exchange’s North American power and natural gas commodity data in Innotap’s products. The first step in this collaboration is a release of Innotap’s new Nodal Exchange app, which provides traders … Continue reading Innotap Launches New Nodal Exchange App→
In 2014, more than 10% of the electricity used in the grid covering most of Texas came from wind generation, according to the grid’s operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Wind’s share of the ERCOT generation mix grew from 6.2% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2014 as total electricity generation increased over the … Continue reading Wind Generates More than 10% of Texas Electricity in 2014→
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