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Measure Twice, Cut Once—A Roadmap for Enabling VPPs Through Policy and Program Design

March 14, 2024 admin California, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, hybrid power, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Massachusetts, New England, Policy, regulatory, Renewables, sustainability, utilities, virtual power plant, vpps

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:23:30 +0000

Virtual power plants (VPPs), as aggregations of dispatchable distributed energy resources (DERs), can deliver grid services ranging from resource adequacy to reliability at scale—all while making energy more affordable. Yet, […]

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UK Leaders Say New Gas-Fired Plants Needed for Energy Security

March 12, 2024 admin Britain, carbon, climate change, desnz, Environmental, Gas, government, International, Legislative, natural gas, net-zero, news, power, renewable energy, Renewables, uk

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:01:22 +0000

Officials in the UK said the country will need to build new natural gas-fired power plants beyond 2030 in order to ensure a reliable supply of energy and avoid blackouts. […]

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Get Ready For California’s Three Sweeping New Climate Disclosure Laws

March 12, 2024 admin California, Climate, Coal, Commentary, emissions, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, Legislative, natural gas, power, thermal

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:05:27 +0000

Can a requirement to simply disclose information truly be a big deal? Can a requirement that only applies to big companies, or companies that do business in California, actually impact […]

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FERC Approves MISO Interconnection Queue Reforms, Rejects Overall Queue Cap

February 2, 2024 admin Commentary, ferc, interconnection, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, Markets, MISO, regulatory, Renewables, T&D

Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:10:29 +0000

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Jan. 19 approved most of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) proposed revisions to its Generator Interconnection Procedures (GIP) designed to reduce the submission […]

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Interconnection Cost-Causer-Pays Model: Is It Fair or Antiquated in the Era of Grid Modernization

February 2, 2024 admin Business, cost allocation, der, distributed energy, distributed energy resources, Distribution, full coverage, interconnection, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, news, power, Power Demand, power grid, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, T&D

Credit to Author: Janique Williams| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:53:31 +0000

The transition to green energy is often seen through two different lenses: a burden or an opportunity. Grid modernization refers to a comprehensive transformation of the traditional power grid to […]

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Brazil Oil Major Buying Renewable Energy Assets

January 24, 2024 admin Brazil, Economy, hydropower, International, Legislative, news, offshore wind, Oil, petrobras, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:08:01 +0000

Renewable energy in Brazil will get a boost after the chief executive of Petrobras, the country’s state-run oil giant, said the company will begin buying solar power and onshore wind […]

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Prodigy and Westinghouse Targeting Launch of eVinci Floating Nuclear Plant in Canada by 2030

January 24, 2024 admin Business, Canada, engineering, evinci, floating nuclear power plants, fnpp, Fuel, full coverage, iaea, innovation, International, Legislative, Markets, microreactor, news, Nuclear, nuclear industry, prodigy clean energy, remote power generation, Research and Development, Safety, small modular reactors, smrs, sustainable energy solutions, Technology, transportable nuclear power plant, trends, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:58:06 +0000

Conceptual layout of a marine (shoreline) installed Prodigy Microreactor Power Station TNPP that can integrate a single or multiple Westinghouse eVinci™ microreactors. The facility is non-self-propelled. Courtesy: Prodigy Clean Energy

Westinghouse has revealed it is designing a transportable nuclear power plant (TNPP) featuring an eVinci microreactor with Canadian firm Prodigy Clean Energy, aiming to deliver a first project in Canada […]

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PGE Leans into an All-of-the-Above Strategy to Decarbonize Its Power System

January 23, 2024 admin Business, climate change, Energy Storage, Environmental, full coverage, Legislative, news, offshore wind, Oregon, PG&E, portland general electric, power, power podcasts, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, sustainability, the power podcast, Wind

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:37:51 +0000

Climate change has led many states and countries to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power systems. Oregon, for example, has set targets for all power sold […]

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25 Differences Between Private Sector and Government Managers

November 25, 2023 admin Business, government, hr, Legislative, managers, private sector, workforce

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 05:00:00 +0000

You often hear it said that government should be run more like a business. But a senior industry executive with cabinet-level experience in the Reagan and Bush II administrations explains why it’s not that simple.

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Three Key Transmission Links Get $1.3B Boost With Federal Capacity Contracts

October 31, 2023 admin bipartisan infrastructure act, Business, DOE, doe grid deployment, federal funding, finance, full coverage, grid resilience, interregional lines, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, national transmission needs study, news, power, renewable energy, T&D, transmission

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:31:09 +0000

Three interregional transmission lines connecting six U.S. states will receive the first $1.3 billion tranche of $2.5 billion in federal funding designated under the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP), a revolving […]

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