AES Growing Its Energy Storage Fleet, Project Pipeline in the Americas and EU AES subsidiary AES Energy Storage manages the largest fleet of grid batteries in commercial service, with 86 megawatts of storage capacity in operation, 50 megawatts in construction, and 210 megawatts in late-stage development. Looking at the portfolio of the largest utility storage … Continue reading AES Growing Its Energy Storage Fleet, Project Pipeline in the Americas and EU→
Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need Competitive wholesale power markets are designed to sustain needed investment through market participants hedging risks in response to transparent pricing in the energy and ancillary services markets. But in practice, it’s been a challenge to realize market prices fully reflective of actual market conditions. … Continue reading Do Pay-for-Performance Capacity Markets Deliver the Grid Resiliency Outcomes We Need?→
#Exelon: Pulled ads prompt questions The Pepco/Exelon merger is still on hold, but a move to pull advertising supporting the merger is prompting speculation from some the merger is a done deal. But Exelon doesn’t see it that way – though Exelon paid for the ads. “The decision to discontinue ads in Maryland and D.C. … Continue reading Pulled ads prompt questions #Exelon #exc→
Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors It would sit in the icy waters of the Arctic, and provide a constant supply of electricity to a massive rig drilling for oil. They could be mass produced, potentially cutting the cost of drilling projects. The twist? The electricity on these floating power plants would … Continue reading Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors→
Nuclear Energy in the U.S. is Not Dead, Yet Lots of people in the US want to write the obituary of the nuclear energy industry in the US. Among their reasons the high cost of new reactors, the low price of natural gas, and a skeptical public spooked by the shadow of Fukushima. EIS for … Continue reading Nuclear Energy in the U.S. is Not Dead, Yet→
Rethinking the U.S. Surrender on Nuclear Power Russia and China are racing to profit from an energy source developed—and overregulated—in the West. The ghosts of Lenin and Mao might well be smirking. Communist and authoritarian nations are moving to take global leadership in, and profit from, the commercial use of nuclear power, a technology made … Continue reading Rethinking the U.S. Surrender on Nuclear Power→
Utilities explore the microgrid value proposition The existing centralized transmission grid, and the utilities that stand behind it, still provide the majority of power supplies to the industrialized world. But renewable, distributed energy resources (DERs) will play an increasing role in the coming years in providing energy supply, reliability, security, and emergency care services. Aggregation … Continue reading #Utilities explore the microgrid value proposition→
