September 29, 2024

Onshore Wind

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBNL: Interconnection Queues Grew 40% in 2022
LBNL's annual report on interconnection queues showed continued growth in capacity waiting to connect to the grid, even as 2 markets restricted new applicants.
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New York Considering Standards for IBRs
The New York State Reliability Council has approved a uniform set of requirements for inverter-based resources over 20 MW to connect to the NYISO grid.
Transwest Express
FERC OKs CAISO-TransWest Move Toward PTO Status
FERC OK'd an agreement between CAISO and the TransWest Express transmission project that lets TransWest continue seeking transmission-owner status in CAISO.
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Decarbonizing the Grid Faces Hurdles Despite Recent Laws
Experts explained to ACORE's Policy Forum what hurdles remain to be overcome after Congress passed the most ambitious clean energy legislation last year.
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ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: Feb. 27-28, 2023
ERCOT staff says that despite “not insignificant” forced outages during the December winter storm, it set a new winter demand record and supported reliability.
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California PUC Orders 4 GW of New Resources for Reliability
The California PUC ordered utilities to procure an additional 4 GW of clean-energy resources by 2027 and said the state needs 85 GW of new resources by 2035.
Recurrent Energy
FERC Rulings Diverge on Commercial Operation Deadlines
FERC granted an Oklahoma solar project an extension of its commercial operation deadline while rejecting an Illinois wind project’s waiver request.
Michael Surran, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
PJM CIR Cap Unlikely to End Accreditation Dispute
PJM members’ vote to limit resources’ capacity interconnection rights is not likely to end the dispute over how the RTO accredits intermittent resources.
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MISO Plans to Bar Intermittent Resources from Ramp Capability
MISO wants to exclude its intermittent class of resources from providing ramp capability by midyear.
Allete Clean Energy
FERC Allows One-time Bypass of MISO IC Queue Fees
FERC granted a waiver to several renewable energy projects that allows their developers to circumvent MISO’s fee distribution.

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