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Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming
Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial institutions – including Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Fitch Ratings, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS – found that solar-plus-battery systems pose a real and present threat to traditional utility business models. Many of them directly cited … Continue reading Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming
FirstEnergy closes 104-year-old coal power plant, electric rates to rise (interactive map)
FirstEnergy closes 104-year-old coal power plant, electric rates to rise (interactive map) CLEVELAND, Ohio — The last three FirstEnergy’s coal-fired power plants on Lake Erie closed forever today. The shutdowns come more than three years after the company announced it would close rather than modernize them to meet new clean air standards. Built generations ago, … Continue reading FirstEnergy closes 104-year-old coal power plant, electric rates to rise (interactive map)
SPP: Clean Power Plan goals will be difficult to reach through any route
SPP: Clean Power Plan goals will be difficult to reach through any route Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has, for the second time, analyzed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP), and found that it would cost $2.9 billion per year in generation-resource capital investment and energy production costs to meet the 2030 deadline … Continue reading SPP: Clean Power Plan goals will be difficult to reach through any route
Report: ISO-NE winter power prices down by nearly half this year
Report: ISO-NE winter power prices down by nearly half this year Power prices in New England were significantly cheaper this past winter, and Platts notes that it’s at least partly due to the ISO’s reliability program, which worked to ensure sufficient fuel diversity and supplies on hand. The grid operator developed a reliability program last … Continue reading Report: ISO-NE winter power prices down by nearly half this year
SPP off-peak congestion drives real-time LMP negative (#SPPNORTH_H = $-169)
Why Today’s Grid Storage Business Models Are Subject to Change
Why Today’s Grid Storage Business Models Are Subject to Change Controlling and optimizing grid-tied and behind-the-meter batteries is already a complicated business. But it’s going to get a lot more complicated in the years to come, both for utility-facing storage integrators like S&C Electric Company, AES Energy Storage and NEC/A123, and for customer-facing behind-the-meter storage … Continue reading Why Today’s Grid Storage Business Models Are Subject to Change
CAISO off-peak real-time LMP prints near $1k (#NP15 = $980)
PJM #Western_Hub bid, posting strong 5min real-time LMP prints (WH = $235)
What shuttering coal plants means for energy jobs
What shuttering coal plants means for energy jobs With new environmental rules looming this week, coal-driven power plants are closing all over the United States, and jobs are going with them. Utilities have been shuttering plants almost since regulatory changes were announced back in December 2011, but the number of closures has spiked recently, and … Continue reading What shuttering coal plants means for energy jobs
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