June 18, 2008

Current and Future State of Regional Wholesale Electricity Markets

Michael Giberson What is the current and future state of regional wholesale electricity markets? FERC wants to know, and so it has assembled a panel of experts to appear at a July 1, 2008, technical conference to be held at the Commission. All interested persons are invited to attend, and there is no registration required. …

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The Importance of Energy Storage for Integrating Renewables

Lynne Kiesling This ars technica article on energy storage provides a concise summary of the challenge of energy storage and the current technology options. Focusing on the power needs of datacenters, the article describes the intermittency problem associated with renewable sources (in normal language, the sun doesn’t necessarily shine and the wind doesn’t necessarily blow …

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