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FERC: Idled NY Plants Can Lose Interconnection Rights

FERC: Idled NY Plants Can Lose Interconnection Rights NYISO can force idled generators to allow use of their interconnections for reliability purposes, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled last week, saying that such actions do not constitute an unconstitutional “taking” under the Fifth Amendment. The commission approved most of the tariff revisions NYISO proposed in … Continue reading FERC: Idled NY Plants Can Lose Interconnection Rights

Waiver not a factor in PJM power prices over $1,000/MWh: report

Waiver not a factor in PJM power prices over $1,000/MWh: report The PJM Interconnection had thousands of times and places where nodal prices exceeded $1,000/MWh this winter, but these prices were not caused by a waiver of a $1,000/MWh cap on incremental electricity offers in PJM, a new report shows. On Monday, Monitoring Analytics, PJM’s … Continue reading Waiver not a factor in PJM power prices over $1,000/MWh: report

FERC Gets Top U.S. Court Hearing on Energy-Conservation Rule

FERC Gets Top U.S. Court Hearing on Energy-Conservation Rule The Obama administration will get a U.S. Supreme Court hearing as it tries to save a rule that rewards industrial consumers for cutting electricity use. The rule, opposed by the power industry, benefits smart-grid companies such as EnerNOC Inc. that help large electricity consumers reduce their … Continue reading FERC Gets Top U.S. Court Hearing on Energy-Conservation Rule

Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid

Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid Transmission grids are one of the biggest bottlenecks to growing the world’s share of wind and solar power. Transmission networks built to push power from central power plants at steady outputs, along undisturbed paths, aren’t well suited for cutting back or increasing throughput … Continue reading Smart Wires Clears Congestion and Allows More Renewables on the Transmission Grid

The Coming Super Grid Build-Out

The Coming Super Grid Build-Out The U.S. government is finally getting serious about upgrading the country’s crucial energy and electric infrastructure. A new first-of-its-kind report, known as the Quadrennial Energy Review, issued by a White House task force in late April, has identified the need to spend billions on replacing aging gas pipelines and modernizing … Continue reading The Coming Super Grid Build-Out

#Southern_California_Edison could hike electricity rates

Southern California Edison could hike electricity rates If you don’t use much electricity, get ready to start paying more. If you use a lot of electricity, get ready to start paying less. That’s the gist of a proposed decision released last week by officials at the California Public Utilities Commission, who largely endorsed a utility … Continue reading #Southern_California_Edison could hike electricity rates

For some users, cheap electricity in high-priced New York #NYC

For some users, cheap electricity in high-priced New York This will shock every New Yorker fed up with high electricity prices: there’s a class of electric customers in the Empire State that has sharply lowered its costs to below national averages, thanks to effective lobbying and sympathetic state policy. Industrial power users, mostly upstate, pay … Continue reading For some users, cheap electricity in high-priced New York #NYC