Four Ways the Final Clean Power Plan Limits the Rush to Natural Gas Earlier this week we watched history being made as President Obama and EPA Administrator McCarthy announced the release of the final Clean Power Plan, setting the first-ever limits on carbon emissions from power plants. The final plan includes a major improvement that … Continue reading Four Ways the Final Clean Power Plan Limits the Rush to Natural Gas
POWER-GRID OPERATOR PLEDGES TO WORK CLOSELY WITH NATURAL-GAS SECTOR PJM agreement seeks to ensure reliability as coal-fired plants are phased out and more gas-fired units are built In a move aimed at enhancing reliability, the regional operator of the power grid plans to work with several natural-gas pipeline operators to ensure there is plenty of … Continue reading #POWER-GRID OPERATOR PLEDGES TO WORK CLOSELY WITH NATURAL GAS SECTOR
No Day-Ahead Schedule Changes Needed, NYISO Says NYISO told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week it does not plan to make any changes in its day-ahead schedule to comply with FERC Order 809, which adjusted the gas market schedule. In a July 23 filing, NYISO said the existing day-ahead schedule satisfies the timing requirements … Continue reading No Day-Ahead Schedule Changes Needed, NYISO Says
Natural gas as an electricity source: Is it sustainable? While an international report predicts the rise of solar electricity worldwide, a different electricity revolution is already happening locally: the rise of natural gas. Natural gas recently overtook coal as the top source in the U.S. for electric power generation for the first time. Ray Dotter, … Continue reading Natural gas as an #electricity source: Is it sustainable?
PJM, pipelines agree to share more information about gas supply and demand The biggest U.S. electric grid operator and nine interstate natural gas pipelines have agreed to share more information about the supply of, and demand for, natural gas for power generation to improve operational planning and anticipate the growing interdependence of the two industries. … Continue reading PJM, pipelines agree to share more information about gas supply and demand
Solar, Storage, Enviros Square Off Against Gas for California SGIP Dollars California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program is a generous subsidy intended to spur development of low-emissions distributed generation. But the complicated calculation of just what qualifies as “low emissions” has been the subject of lively debate at the California Public Utilities Commission of late, since the … Continue reading Solar, Storage, Enviros Square Off Against Gas for California #SGIP Dollars
David Bradley July 31, 2015 PJM Interconnection has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with nine major gas pipeline companies that serve power generators in its footprint to work together to improve operational planning and address the growing interdependence of the electricity and gas markets. The pipelines — Columbia Gas Transmission, Dominion Cove Point LNG, … Continue reading PJM, Pipelines Join Forces to Improve Electricity-NatGas Operational Planning
By JOHN SICILIANO • 7/26/15 12:01 AM A new threat could be looming for consumers’ wallets, as the electric grid transitions from coal to natural gas, making nuclear power less economical, according to a new report on the economic benefits of nuclear energy. “Absent nuclear, consumers would pay more for electricity, the economy would suffer … Continue reading Electricity from natural gas could come at a cost: Study
By TOM RELIHAN Recorder Staff Thursday, July 23, 2015 (Published in print: Friday, July 24, 2015) GREENFIELD — After a winter that saw major increases in electric bills across the region, rates have dropped back to more normal warm-weather levels. While those big fluctuations showed up in monthly electric bills, retailers like Eversource Energy — … Continue reading Utilities: Power prices drop, but cause of price spike remains
FERC Rejects Bid to Broaden Scope of Gas-Electric Info Sharing Federal regulators last week rejected a request by a natural gas distributor to relax restrictions on its sharing of non-public information received from electric utilities. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dismissed National Fuel Gas Distribution’s request in two rulings. In one, FERC dismissed the company’s … Continue reading FERC Rejects Bid to Broaden Scope of #Gas – #Electric Info Sharing
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