Sweeping Changes in Western Energy Markets PacifiCorp and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) just announced an agreement to explore the feasibility of integrating their two markets. CAISO, which oversees the only competitive electricity market in the West, manages 80 percent of the energy flow in California. Although the Nevada Valley Electric Authority joined CAISO … Continue reading Sweeping Changes in Western Energy Markets
Verizon pushes smart cities and smart farms WASHINGTON – Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced it will expand its foray into smart city and smart agriculture technology as part of the vaunted “Internet of Things” revolution. The carrier’s push into IoT makes business sense as many analysts predicted connected objects and machines will become a multitrillion-dollar industry … Continue reading #Verizon pushes smart cities and smart farms
Maxim Power Slapped With $5M Fine For Market Manipulation Law360, New York (May 04, 2015, 12:58 PM ET) — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission slapped a Canadian energy provider with a $5 million fine Friday, chastising Maxim Power Corp. for charging New England’s wholesale power market the high prices needed to burn oil while the … Continue reading #Maxim_Power Slapped With $5M Fine For Market Manipulation
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 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 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
If you stick an “E” in DR, what do you have? Many in the DR and smart grid community have worked hard to give demand response a standing equal to traditional energy efficiency, and to have the words “demand response” be the third thing that falls off the lips of policymakers and others when they … Continue reading If you stick an “E” in DR, what do you have?
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 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
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