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RIP for FITs, or NOT?
Americans don’t have to look very far these days to see the role a Feed-in Tariff can play in jump-starting purchases – and the economic and environmental benefits – of solar electric / photovoltaic...
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Power Grid and IT Security: Stuxnet Puts U.S. ‘Behind the 8-ball’
It doesn’t take a computer geek to grasp the looming threat of a cyber- attack on national power grids, along with networked systems that run or protect various industrial and national security...
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Demand response and cleaner energy outbidding some coal-fired generation in PJM
Almost like a tree falling in the forest, the recent auction for wholesale power supplies from utilities and competitive generators produced a relatively quiet but telling shift in the PJM power grid...
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Energy risk officers recommend risk management standards for power, gas...
Utilities, power suppliers and regional organizations that coordinate the flow of electricity throughout the U.S. are taking steps to better understand the creditworthiness of market participants and...
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EPA emissions rules igniting protests about grid reliability from guess who:...
Once again the BENEFITS of cleaner power generation in the U.S. are absent from an escalating debate over court-ordered clean air rules by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set to be finalized...
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Committee of Chief Risk Officers seeking wholesale power “passport” for ISOs...
Ten years ago this fall, in the wake of Enron’s collapse and the California power shortage, with huge questions looming about energy “deregulation,” a handful of merchant energy companies and proactive...
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Renewables lead new generation this year, but prepare for big decline in new...
By Bill Opalka, Guest ContributorRenewable energy generation grabbed a 46% share of new capacity in the first 10 months of the year, easily outpacing natural gas, coal, nuclear and oil.That’s according...
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Two FERC settlements illustrate attempts to ‘game’ demand response programs
Two settlements at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made public this year involving large civil penalties illustrate how the market for demand response (DR) services could be ‘gamed’ by...
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With California Leading the Way, Energy Storage Is Ready to Earn a Real Place...
The absence of a viable means to store a significant amount of electricity generated from renewable resources is one of the tallest hurdles limiting their growth. After a series of financial setbacks...
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Blackouts in PJM are a growing risk without changes reflecting new realities...
The lessons learned and the second-guessing prompted by the polar vortexes that walloped the Eastern U.S. twice in January taught us that the power grid in the Mid-Atlantic states needs — quickly — to...
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