Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:24:46 +0000
The AI craze is threatening to overwhelm utility companies who don’t have enough electricity to power new data centers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:05:47 +0000
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected an amended interconnection agreement that would have supported expanded co-located load at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center connected to the […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:34:59 +0000
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has launched an ambitious new initiative alongside power companies, grid operators, and several tech giants to establish five to 10 “flexibility hubs” that will […]
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Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 02:56:11 +0000
New analysis shows that Illinois can maintain reliability even after retiring fossil resources by deploying 3 GW of 4-hour battery storage. In 2021, Illinois passed the landmark Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), charting a path toward 100% clean energy by 2045. CEJA mandates the staggered retirement of Illinois’ fleet of fossil … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:55:13 +0000
Prices at PJM Interconnection’s 2025/2026 base residual auction (BRA) spiked to $269.92/MW-day for most resources in the wholesale power market, pointing to a tightening supply-demand balance that could have significant […]
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Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:59:04 +0000
Editor’s note: The war on coal is real, and it’s been happening on several fronts. Solar power is replacing coal. Wind power is replacing coal. Natural gas is replacing coal. At the end of the day, coal has been on a long, big decline in the USA. The following update … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 22:41:20 +0000
More than two dozen states and a handful of trade groups filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, challenging parts of the Environmental Protection […]
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Credit to Author: Terence Healey| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:48:38 +0000
In a time where capacity revenues are pricing lower and many generation owners find that their facilities are not being dispatched for energy on a consistent basis, reliable revenue streams […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:30:51 +0000
Grid operators across the U.S. report they are largely prepared for the total solar eclipse that will pass over a large swath of North America on April 8, though they […]
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Credit to Author: Maxwell Multer| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:44:32 +0000
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in Docket No. ER24-99-000, recently approved a suite of tariff revisions submitted by PJM intended to “accommodate the energy transition while maintaining resource adequacy.” […]
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