Minnesota utility Xcel Energy says it can build more effective virtual power plants by owning and controlling its own batteries. But solar groups, consumer advocates and state agencies think customer solar and batteries are a faster and cheaper path:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
#energysky
🚨The ban on aggregators of demand response participating in wholesale markets in Minnesota was reversed by the MN Court of Appeals. FERC could step in now and free the rest of MISO and SPP states by lifting the opt out in O719.
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There is no cost estimate guide similar to what MISO posts? cdn.misoenergy.org/MISO%20Trans...
but he is not able to convince the PJM mkt monitor that his solution provides demand flexibility.
Despite this announcement, the MPSC is still not allowing for meaningful intervention and review on these DTE data center contracts.
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Next time someone tells you renewables will beat gas on economics to justify deregulating everything, maybe consider that even wildly uneconomic coal plants continue to run and pollute, and coal pollution may well go up not down due to bonkers state intervention.
This headline asks a question that makes investor-owned utilities squirm. Nice work from my colleague @blancabegert.bsky.social:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
Early signal that next year we are going to see a lot of legislation and campaign proposals around power sector regulation and policies #energysky
www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/t... The loan guarantee to AEP was among those conditionally approved under Biden, a fact Wright acknowledged to reporters.
“Not all of the (Biden-era) projects were nonsense,” he said, adding that he was “happy to move forward” with the transmission upgrade.
California steps in to fill the void in federal leadership on offshore wind:
www.utilitydive.com/news/califor...
How Does a Virtual Power Plant in Texas Work? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGV...
Not surprisingly, the guy that heads the federal agency that's been issuing "stop work" orders against permitted offshore wind projects appears to be heavily conflicted, with ties to the oil and gas industries:
www.eenews.net/articles/hou...
As the current national administration seeks to prop up coal -- a highly polluting and uneconomic technology of the past -- the global economy and investors are sending a very different signal about where the future of energy is headed:
www.eenews.net/articles/ren...
Great @data.ft.com article on the good news story of the global build out of battery #energystorage -- a foundation technology of clean energy transition, and the asset class to manage ubiquitous and intensive computing loads. Civilizationally critical tech! #energysky
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In April, Spain and Portugal suffered Europe's worst blackout in 20 years. Now, 5 months later, an expert panel has released a report on the blackout. In the meantime, opportunists filled the information void, blaming renewables without evidence. The misinfo stuck, @juliaradio.bsky.social reports.
While our federal government is dunking on renewables, they just became the world's largest source of electricity.
The Town of Carrboro and Duke Energy met in court last Thursday over Duke’s attempt to have the climate deception lawsuit thrown out.
NC WARN is honored to be assisting in this powerful case alongside the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read more here: suedukeenergy.org/resources/news/
The costs of interconnecting data centers to electricity transmission grids get paid by ratepayers - i.e., by you - 95% of the time, raising household electricity costs by billions, a new study finds.
Big tech companies can afford to pay for their own interconnections. Regulators should make them.
