coal plant retirements
Additional renewables and storage will not compensate for gas retirements in the Western Interconnection, a new WECC reliability assessment says.
Coal plant retirements have not caused a shortage of black start resources, but grid operators should consider expanded testing, FERC and NERC said.
Hundreds of investors, utility executives and others gathered for Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Future of Energy Summit.
Duke Energy released a carbon-reduction plan that anticipates relying on natural gas and technology advancements to phase out coal-fired generation by 2050.
PJM assured Pennsylvania legislators that the state has ample power generation for its needs and cautioned that fuel diversity will not ensure reliability.
PJM is experiencing an “unprecedented” switch from coal- to gas-fired generation while also managing the replacement of aging transmission infrastructure.
Utility giant CMS Energy pledged it would phase out all coal generation by 2040, days after releasing its 2017 earnings report.
FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones said the company’s floundering FES merchant generating arm is now under a death watch.
ISO-NE is increasingly reliant on natural gas-fired generation, and LNG and electricity imports to maintain reliability, a new report shows.
ERCOT enters 2018 facing new questions, as the growth in wind energy has begun threatening not only coal but also less efficient natural gas-fired generation.
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