Name: CEC Pre-Application Workshop — Energy Storage Innovations to Support Grid Reliability
Start: 2024-07-08
End: 2024-07-08
Location: Teleconference / Webex / Webinar / Virtual Event

NetZero Insider

IRENA Says World Needs to Build Renewables Faster

This chart tracks 22 years of renewable energy development worldwide.

International Renewable Energy Agency

Jul 14, 2024Generation & FuelsJohn Cropley

Installed capacity of renewables rose 14% in 2023, the largest one-year jump this century and much higher than the 10% compound annual growth rate from 2017-2023.

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MISO

MISO: Sloped Curve Would Have Raised 2024/25 Capacity Auction Prices

Jul 14, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

As it gears up to run its first auctions using sloped demand curves, MISO said prices and procurement would have risen had it used them in this year’s auctions.

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MISO's Markets Committee of the Board of Directors meeting in March

MISO Monitor Spotlights Congestion Fixes, Market Mismatches in 2023

Jul 14, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor debuted six new market recommendations this year as part of his annual State of the Market report.

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OG&E

FERC Rejects SPP’s Proposed Uncertainty Adder

Jul 14, 2024MarketsTom Kleckner

FERC rejected SPP's tariff revisions that would modify the adder for uncertainty of expected costs for offers above $1,000/MWh.

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NERC Sends Virtualization Standards to FERC

Jul 11, 2024FERC & FederalHolden Mann

The 11 new standards are intended to allow for safe adoption of new technologies on the electric grid.

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Siemens

Renewable Group Asks MISO Community to Consider HVDC Capacity

Jul 14, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

A renewable energy trade group asked MISO to put more thought into how HVDC transmission’s ability to infuse the footprint with more external capacity could influence MISO’s capacity auctions.

MISO Subcommittee to Act on Bad Actor Demand Response

Jul 14, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

MISO’s Market Subcommittee will assist MISO in drafting tariff requirements to discourage market participants from committing fraud in MISO’s demand response market.

MISO Proposes to Split LMR Participation, Accreditation into Fast/Slow Groups

Jul 14, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

MISO said it will likely split load-modifying resource participation into two options in an effort to line up their true contributions with accreditation.

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Dominion Energy agreed to pay SERC Reliability $150,000 as part of a settlement involving its Virginia nuclear division, operator of the North Anna Power Station.

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FERC Approves $246K in Reliability Standards Penalties

Jul 10, 2024Regional EntitiesHolden Mann

SERC and NPCC assessed a combined $246,000 in penalties against two utilities for violations of NERC reliability standards.

ERO Comments on CISA Reporting Proposal

Jul 9, 2024NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

Comments on CISA's cyber incident reporting proposal focused on its overlap with the CIP standards' reporting requirements, with some also calling the proposal too broad.

FBI Warns Power Sector of IBR Cyber Vulnerabilities

Jul 2, 2024FERC & FederalHolden Mann

The FBI warned that inverter-based resources may be particularly vulnerable to malicious cyber actors in an industry alert.

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Three proposals have been submitted in New Jersey's latest offshore wind solicitation.

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3 OSW Proposals Submitted to NJ

Jul 11, 2024Generation & FuelsJohn Cropley

One of the proposals contains a rebid of a project that already holds a New Jersey contract

Startups: Market Will Move New Cleantech Regardless of Election Outcome

Jul 10, 2024Company NewsK Kaufmann

Questions from energy reporters at a USEA briefing on emerging cleantech shifted the focus to what will happen to U.S. energy policy if Donald Trump is re-elected president.

Bill to Streamline Transmission Development Advances in Calif. Senate

Jul 10, 2024State and Local PolicyElaine Goodman

California lawmakers have advanced a bill aimed at streamlining approval of transmission projects, but not before substantially stripping down the legislation.

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DOE

Counterflow: Microgrid Poster Child

Jul 14, 2024Special Reports & CommentarySteve Huntoon

Columnist Steve Huntoon says every few years he returns to the subject of microgrids "to beseech everyone to please stop the insanity."

MISO to Limit Use of $10K VOLL During Long-duration Outages

Jul 14, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

MISO said stakeholders have convinced it to design an off switch on its proposed $10,000/MWh value of lost load to use during extended load-shedding events.

Talen Energy Deal with Data Center Leads to Cost Shifting Debate at FERC

Jul 11, 2024Company NewsJames Downing

Talen Energy’s deal to carve out capacity from its Susquehanna Nuclear Plant to serve a growing data center on its site drew protests at FERC from other parties who argued the deal and others like it could shift costs and threaten reliability.

Texas Utilities: Beryl’s Damage Unlike that of Cat 1s

Jul 11, 2024Company NewsTom Kleckner

Transmission providers say Hurricane Beryl’s high winds deep inland in a heavily-wooded region led to significant customer outages that will last more than a week after the storm’s landfall.

Potomac Economics

NYISO Monitor: NYC Capacity Costs Rose 221% in Q1

Jul 11, 2024MarketsVincent Gabrielle

New York City saw a 221% increase in capacity costs in the first quarter due to the retirement of 600 MW in peaker plants and the increase of more than 300 MW in the local installed capacity requirement.

ISO-NE

NEPOOL Markets Committee Restarts Work on Capacity Market Changes

Jul 11, 2024ISO-NEJon Lamson

ISO-NE presented the initial scope of its work to coordinate resource capacity accreditation improvements with proposed capacity market timing changes at the NEPOOL Markets Committee summer meeting.

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NYSRC

NYISO Studying How to Update IRM Calculation to Account for Offshore Wind

Jul 3, 2024State RegulationVincent Gabrielle

The New York State Reliability Council’s mathematical model for calculating the state’s installed reserve margin every year will need to be updated as more offshore wind and major transmission lines come online, NYISO told stakeholders.

NERC Promises 1st ITCS Results by August

Jul 1, 2024NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

NERC said it will release the ITCS by August, with additional U.S. analyses to be completed in November and Canadian results to follow next year.

FERC Orders Further Cold Weather Standard Modifications

Jun 27, 2024Standards/ProgramsHolden Mann

FERC directed NERC to submit further changes to its latest cold weather standard within the next nine months.

FERC Accepts NERC ROP Changes, Drops Assessment Proposal

Jun 27, 2024FERC & FederalHolden Mann

FERC accepted NERC's plan for registering inverter-based resources, while dropping a proposal to require more frequent performance assessments from the ERO.

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NERC Submits INSM Standard for FERC Approval

Jun 26, 2024Standards/ProgramsHolden Mann

NERC submitted to FERC its proposed cybersecurity reliability standard requiring utilities to implement internal network security monitoring software on select grid cyber systems.