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A federal order to keep Unit 1 of the coal-fired Craig Generating Station operational past its planned retirement date seems disconnected from grid realities, a Colorado state energy official said.
The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee asked CAISO to initiate a stakeholder process to create a funding mechanism for the newly incorporated organization that is slated to assume governance over the ISO’s energy markets.
CAISO leaders staged a virtual “town hall” to stress the importance of a smooth rollout to the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market in May and promise to address market seams issues.
SPP says ample wind generation during the January winter storm enabled it to export as much as 3,500 MW to its neighbors in the Eastern Interconnection.
Misguided NIMBYism or corporate welfare either obstructs the building of new data centers or compels taxpayers to subsidize them, writes energy consultant Kenneth W. Costello.
Work on the $7.5 billion, 810-MW project off the New York coast has been halted twice by the administration and resumed twice by the Norwegian developer.
Energy efficiency and load flexibility would be effective and cost far less than the new generation assets many jurisdictions are planning to build to meet anticipated load growth, a new report asserts.
All five FERC commissioners faced questions from the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy on how to balance reliability and affordability as demand grows.
Analysts with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin said ratepayers are at risk of subsidizing data centers if We Energies’ proposed rate framework for data centers is given the go-ahead as proposed.
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