All Posts Tagged With: "electrical grid"
Robust Transmission Investment Planned
for U.S. Grid
Edison Electric Institute reports its member utility companies plan to invest at least $64 billion on expected transmission system improvements through 2022. This investment will follow the roughly $77 billion that member companies poured into grid improvements over the last decade.
2May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Coal To Natural Gas - It’s Happening Now
in the Power Industry
The most optimistic projections describe an abundant domestic energy source that will create enormous numbers of jobs and lead to cleaner skies. Nationwide, the electricity generated by gas-fired plants has risen by more than 50 percent over the last decade, while coal-fired generation has declined slightly.
16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Drive Like the Wind
Many people think of electric vehicles as electricity consumers. But the PNNL researchers say a partially charged vehicle sitting at work or at home represents a potential asset for grid operators; a vehicle’s ability to start and stop charging, to adjust for varying windpower, could serve as a shock absorber on the grid.
27Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Former Governor Ritter Joins Western Advocates to Urge State Leadership on Clean Energy
The report entitled Western Grid 2050: Contrasting Futures, Contrasting Fortunes finds that with intentional policymaking and planning today, the West can successfully transition to a clean energy economy that will deliver job, environmental and public health benefits for decades to come.
25Aug2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
EPRI REPORT: Electric Vehicles Not a Great Threat to the Grid
Even if EVs were to constitute 20% of the US car market, less than a 0.01% chance would exist of overloading healthy transformers, according to a new report from the Electric Power Research Institute released this week.
20Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Transmission Cost for Renewables on FERC Agenda
The potential impact for getting distributed renewable energy generation from remote locations to load is huge, of course. Boiled down to its basics, the FERC is considering who pays, how much, under what circumstances and in what geographic footprint — a tall order to be sure.
30Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
GEO Releases Strategic Transmission and Renewables Report
It couldn’t come at a better time, as electrical grid build-out issues are looming large in Colorado and throughout the west. Earlier this week the last round of arguments for and against a proposed power line betweeen Pueblo and Walsenburg and on to the San Luis Valley were heard before the COPUC.
11Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Comments Sought on Extra-High-Voltage Power Line
The 600-kilovolt, direct-current line would transmit up to 3,000 megawatts per year of electricity from planned renewable energy facilities in south-central Wyoming through northwestern Colorado and Utah to southern Nevada.
8Jan2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Spirae, Xcel Energy Part of New DOE
Grid Initiative
The Fort Collins-based company is participating in a project for an automated, secure, and self-healing electric distribution management system, while Xcel is helping to develop and demonstrate a real-time monitoring, control, and health management system to improve grid reliability and efficiency.
28Nov2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Public Protests Against Smart Grid!
The biggest problem is that there is no price-driven incentive for the public to pay any attention to the use of a smart meter. If you really want folks to load up their clothes washer to run at 4 AM when the the demand for electricity is presumably lower than at 4 PM, then you might want to consider discounting the price/kwh to the tune of 50% or so.
17Nov2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Class in Session: Guest Entry Shares RETool Experience
It has been touted as a critical opportunity for ushering in a cleaner energy economy. With entrepreneurs like Adrian Tuck (Tendril) out there trying to change the way we use electricity, the smart grid is hard to ignore.
12Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Gusher vs. Goals
By Anne B. Butterfield
As the gusher in the Gulf continues to traumatize the nation, the 20,000 attendees at this year`s largest wind energy conference held last week in Dallas, felt anguish on the need for national renewable energy standard (RES). Industry and its allies are calling for a national RES, as well as streamlined rules for transmission, to support a robust American wind industry that will shield rate payers from fuel price spikes and power plug-in vehicles to offset our oil dependence now running amok in the Gulf.
Developers Forging Ahead with Wyoming-Colorado
Transmission Line
Despite slow going, a power transmission project line linking the wind fields of southeast Wyoming and Colorado’s Front Range is still being pushed by developers.
15Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...