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MISO, SPP identify transmission upgrades enabling 28 GW of new renewables

The MISO and SPP transmission study revealed seven sites that would enable more than 28 GW of renewable energy development.

FERC should act on these 3 issues in 2022

FERC has opened several lines of inquiry into building the future grid. But FERC needs to do more in 2022.

Investigation into Texas freeze highlights natural gas failures, frequency of cold weather events

The joint report issued by FERC and NERC cited freezing and natural gas fuel supply issues as the two largest causes for the disaster.

An idea to clear out the SPP interconnection queue backlog to reduce renewable PPA costs

Clearing the current queue backlog is the focus of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) generator interconnection staff. However, they are missing a key long-term solution to address the root cause of backlog, identifying network upgrade costs for developers. Indeed, renewable energy (RE) developers could check if alternatives to network upgrades exist if these developers have study results in hand. SPP

New Berkeley Lab report quantifies the drivers of wholesale power price changes

Wholesale electricity prices have fallen dramatically in most organized markets in the United States over the last decade, largely due to a steep reduction in the price of natural gas. But growth in wind and solar generation, fairly flat trends in electrical load, and new natural-gas power plant additions have also played a role. A new report from Lawrence Berkeley

ACCIONA teams up with Tenaska to develop 3 GW of solar PV and 1 GW of energy storage

ACCIONA this week announced that it signed an agreement with energy developer Tenaska to acquire a portfolio of greenfield photovoltaic (PV) solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. The development portfolio comprises approximately 3,000 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar and 1,000 MW of co-located solar and energy storage. The transaction includes 20 solar projects in the PJM Interconnection and

Will the oil industry help address climate change?

Many climate scientists warn that if we don’t change course the planet will warm by as much as 6 degrees Celsius, according to an article prepared by NASA…

Lincoln Clean Energy to build 230-MW wind farm in Nebraska

Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE), Ørsted’s U.S. onshore company, issued the final notice to proceed on its 230-MW Plum Creek wind facility in Wayne County, Nebrask…

IEA, EDF unit to build 300 MW wind farm in Nebraska

The project award is valued at about $98 million, according to IEA, and will be able to power up to 115,000 average homes…

Utility-scale wind energy ramping up for one of best years in U.S.

EIA data forecasts that U.S. wind capacity added this year should total 12.7 GW, by far the best since 2012’s record of 13.3 GW. That was the year the product…

What if the US-Mexico border wall was an energy corridor that could pay for itself?

Instead of a wall, build a first-of-its-kind energy park that spans the 1,954 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico to bring energy, water, j…

Lower than average wind speeds are hurting US wind power producers

Unusually still weather in the upper Midwest and Great Plains in late 2018 has already taken a bite out of earnings at NextEra Energy Inc. and Avangrid Inc., wh…

Experts Agree: There is No Clear Winner or Loser in Power Generation Technologies

At a mega-session during POWER-GEN International, a panel made up of utility resource planners, transmission operators and generation technology experts all see…

Renewable Hungry Companies need to get on the RTO ASAP

The report by recently rebranded Wind-Solar Alliance points out that more than 100 U.S. corporate buyers —members of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance…

With a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB), the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund supported the installation of 200 kW of solar PV in…