Resource Adequacy
Resource adequacy is the ability of electric grid operators to supply enough electricity at the right locations, using current capacity and reserves, to meet demand. It is expressed as the probability of an outage due to insufficient capacity.
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President Donald Trump’s policies and the growth in demand from data centers and other new customers have changed the trajectory of the power system, speakers said at the Energy Future Forum.
Sif Group
BOEM lifted a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 project in a deal that will have New York work on expanding pipelines into the Northeast, a goal the White House has publicly sought since shortly after President Trump took office.
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The California Public Utilities Commission has proposed a new framework that would take a “more programmatic approach” to load-serving entities’ resource procurement requirements compared with the agency’s recent practice of issuing procurement orders as needed.
ICF
ICF International is projecting another rise in the rate of demand growth as more data centers seek to plug into the grid in the coming years, with a 25% increase from 2023 levels by 2030 and 78% by 2050.
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Experts in the data center field discussed the challenges of meeting accelerating computational load during the PJM Annual Meeting, held in the core of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.
NOAA
SPP expects to have a “high probability” of enough generation to meet demand during peak-use hours this summer, despite predictions of higher-than-average temperatures in the RTO’s footprint.
NYISO
New York solar generation set an all-time peak record April 17, generating 4,809 MW in the noon hour, NYISO told the Operating Committee.
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Former FERC Chair Willie Phillips, now a partner with Holland & Knight, says his old agency is in good hands with its current membership.
Sargent & Lundy
FERC refused MISO’s first attempt to enact a special pathway in its interconnection queue for generation projects labeled necessary by state regulators.
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MISO CEO John Bear put a positive spin on the grid operator making do with little cushion in its supply.
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