Electricity

FERC’s Smart Grid Policy Statement (And an Aside on Federal-State Jurisdictional Issues)

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Michael Giberson Also emerging from today’s FERC meeting, issuance of the Commission’s smart grid policy statement. At present only a press release and the chairman’s statement is available, but likely the full policy statement and remarks by other commissioners will be posted on the FERC home page in the next few hours. I imagine our …

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FERC Directs New York Power System Operator to Fix “Loop Flow” Scheduling Problem

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Michael Giberson Today the FERC approved public release of the results of an internal staff investigation into allegations of “loop flow”-based market manipulations in the New York ISO market (see links below): In this order, we authorize the public disclosure of the attached Office of Enforcement Staff Report (OE Report) addressing its non-public investigation of …

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World’s First Utility-Scale, Zero-Emissions Hydrogen Power Plant?

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Michael Giberson The Associated Press is reporting that a New Mexico company, Jetstream Wind (WARNING: annoying animated introduction accompanied by equally annoying dramatic soundtrack), has broken ground on what it claims will be “the world’s first utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen power plant.” According to the company website, their plan is to use renewable energy to produce …

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Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

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Lynne Kiesling Today’s Nikola Tesla’s 153rd birthday, as you can see celebrated in the Google page logo today (Hat tip: D.O.U.G., thanks!). If we owe our modern electricity-enabled civilization to any one scientist, it’s Tesla — alternating current, induction motors, transformers, you name it. Tesla rocks. And for you 80s music fans, Tesla’s birthday post …

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Sources and Uses of Electric Power Consumed in the United States

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Michael Giberson From the Annual Energy Review by the Energy Information Administration (a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy), a chart showing the sources and uses of electric power: Via Lou Grinzo at the Energy Collective. Click through on the chart to see a larger version (or get the PDF) from EIA. The chart …

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Pickens New Plan: Not to Build the World’s Largest Wind Power Farm

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Michael Giberson [UPDATE: Pickens now says he is delaying, not dropping plan to build his wind farm.] Boone Pickens is dropping his plan to build a huge, 4,000 MW wind power farm in the northeast corner of the Texas Panhandle.  Among the reasons: his plan to build his own transmission line fell through, the transmission …

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The Economist, Computer World on Building the Smart Grid

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Lynne Kiesling Recently the Economist included a thorough smart grid story in their Technology Quarterly issue; if you are looking for a good overview of the state of play in smart grid at a high level, this story will give you that background, running the gamut from distribution automation to interoperability standards. Another recent overview …

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