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

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NW Senators Urge BPA to Delay Day-ahead Market Decision

Jul 26, 2024CAISO/WEIMRobert Mullin

The senators representing Oregon and Washington urged the agency to delay its decision to join a Western day-ahead electricity market until developments play out further around SPP’s Markets+ and CAISO’s EDAM.

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Projections of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through 2035 under a range of scenarios in a variety of sectors

Rhodium Group

Rhodium: US Accelerating Reductions in GHG Emissions

Jul 25, 2024Building DecarbonizationJohn Cropley

The Rhodium Group’s annual update of its "Taking Stock" report finds that U.S. GHG emissions were 18% lower in 2023 than in 2005 and estimates they will be 32 to 43% lower in 2030.

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FERC

FERC Open Meeting Showcases Order 1920 Rehearing Debate

Jul 25, 2024Public PolicyJames Downing

The ongoing debate around Order 1920 and its pending rehearing requests continued at FERC’s monthly open meeting, a day after it came up at a House oversight hearing.

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NERC

Robb Reviews Challenges of Changing Grid at WIRES

Jul 25, 2024NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

NERC CEO Jim Robb discussed several emerging challenges to the grid at the WIRES Summer Meeting in Boston.

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The ISO Board of Governors and the Western Energy Markets Governing Body plan to vote on the Pathways Initiative Step 1, which would shift primary authority to the governing body, August 13.

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CAISO Advances Pathways Initiative ‘Step 1’ Proposal to Board Vote

Jul 25, 2024CAISO/WEIMAyla Burnett

CAISO will recommend its board approve a proposal to eventually give the WEM Governing Body increased authority over both the Western EIM and EDAM.

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CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells (second from right) and other senior executives brief the Texas PUC on their Hurricane Beryl response.

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CenterPoint CEO Promises PUC Utility Will ‘Improve’

Jul 25, 2024Company NewsTom Kleckner

CenterPoint Energy executives appeared before Texas regulators to apologize for the company’s slow restoration following Hurricane Beryl’s landfall and promised to do better next time.

MISO Sets Sights on 50% Peak MW Cap in Annual Interconnection Queue Cycles

Jul 25, 2024MISOAmanda Durish Cook

MISO plans to pursue a more straightforward, 50% peak load megawatt cap to limit the number of generator interconnection requests it will accept annually.

FERC Ends Section 206 Proceeding for New Brunswick Energy Marketing

Jul 25, 2024FERC & FederalJon Lamson

FERC ruled that New Brunswick Energy Marketing does not appear to have horizontal market power in the New Brunswick balancing authority area, concluding a Section 206 proceeding that came out of a failed market share screening test.

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This chart shows CAISO's generation and load for June 25, 2023, when the ISO briefly served 88% of its energy with wind and solar.

NERC

Report Says New Energy Metrics Needed

Jul 23, 2024NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

A new report from NERC and the National Academy of Engineering explored the shortcomings of traditional resource adequacy metrics and alternatives under development.

NERC Submits Final Performance Assessment

Jul 22, 2024FERC & FederalHolden Mann

NERC filed its performance assessment with FERC last week, highlighting its accomplishments over the last five years as ERO.

NYISO Stakeholders Question Draft CEII Protection Requirements

Jul 15, 2024Regional EntitiesVincent Gabrielle

The NYISO Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee criticized an ISO proposal to include CEII protection requirements.

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Advanced Energy United

NV Energy Should Do More to Tap VPP Potential, Report Says

Jul 25, 2024Company NewsElaine Goodman

NV Energy's virtual power plant market potential could grow from an estimated 134 MW this year to 1,230 MW in 2035, according to a new analysis.

GE Vernova Finds Defect in Vineyard Wind Blade

Jul 24, 2024Company NewsJohn Cropley

The defect is believed to be isolated but the other hundred-plus blades made at the same factory will be inspected to be sure.

DOE Awards $371M to Regulators, Communities Grappling with New Tx

Jul 24, 2024Equity & EconomicsK Kaufmann

DOE awarded $371 million to state regulatory agencies to accelerate transmission permitting and to communities impacted by major interstate projects.

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FERC Accepts NYISO Capacity Accreditation Changes, with 1-Year Delay

Jul 25, 2024FERC & FederalVincent Gabrielle

FERC approved NYISO’s proposed tariff revisions to more accurately accredit natural gas resources’ capacity, but the commission delayed their implementation until 2026.

NextEra Reports Continued Growth in Renewables

Jul 24, 2024Company NewsJohn Cropley

Data center agreements with Google totaling 860 MW brought the NextEra Energy Resources backlog to 22.6 GW, even as it placed more than 1.6 GW into service in the second quarter.

Order 1920 Debated at House Hearing with All 5 FERC Commissioners

Jul 24, 2024FERC & FederalJames Downing

At full strength for the first time since the beginning of last year with the addition of Judy Chang, all five FERC commissioners appeared at a House oversight hearing during which representatives questioned them on Order 1920.

NRDC: Coal Plants Squeezing Out Cheaper Resources in MISO Market

Jul 24, 2024MarketsAmanda Durish Cook

Coal plants in the Central U.S. are elbowing out lower-cost, cleaner generation and have collected more than $1 billion in uneconomic payments over a three-year span, the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a new report.

Panelists in a recent webinar discussed different approaches for covering the costs of wildfires.

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California Wildfire Fund Could be Model for US, Panelists Say

Jul 23, 2024Public PolicyElaine Goodman

A California wildfire fund created by state lawmakers in 2019 could serve as a model for a similar nationwide fund, speakers said during a webinar hosted by Americans for a Clean Energy Grid.

New utility poles line right-of-way amid the storm's debris in Conroe.

CenterPoint Under Fire for Its Beryl Response

Jul 23, 2024Company NewsTom Kleckner

Beleaguered Texas utility CenterPoint Energy has come under fire from the state’s political leadership, lawmakers, regulators and citizens over its slow restoration efforts following a Category 1 hurricane.

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CISA

CISA Executive Director to Step Down

Jul 24, 2024FERC & FederalHolden Mann

CISA has announced that Executive Director Brandon Wales will leave the agency after nearly five years, including a brief tenure as acting director.

NERC Sends Virtualization Standards to FERC

Jul 11, 2024Standards/ProgramsHolden Mann

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

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, 2024Standards/ProgramsHolden 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.

IRM-LCR unified method curve dynamics with Tan45 anchor point

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.