By Maya Nevels and Steve Gaw for Advanced Power Alliance Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took a decisive step toward modernizing the nation’s power grid by approving the consolidated transmission planning process proposed by Southwest Power Pool (SPP), commonly referred to as CPP. For the states and communities served by SPP, thisContinue reading “A New Era for Transmission Planning in the Southwest Power Pool”
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Wind Output Enabled SPP Exports to Neighbors During Winter Storm Fern
Grid Operator Sent as Much as 3,500 MW Eastward Source: RTO Insider LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In preparing his first presentation to stakeholders as SPP’s operations vice president, C.J. Brown said he found himself staring at a blank slide. “What am I going to talk about?” he had asked himself. “I’ve regretted that statement because asContinue reading “Wind Output Enabled SPP Exports to Neighbors During Winter Storm Fern”
Low Natural Gas Prices, Not Wind Energy, Primarily Responsible for Coal’s Troubles
A repost from “Into the Wind”, blog of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) by Michael Goggin As we’ve observed previously, a common tactic when an energy source is facing market headwinds is to blame wind energy for its problems. Just as some nuclear power plant owners previously tried to blame wind energy for theirContinue reading “Low Natural Gas Prices, Not Wind Energy, Primarily Responsible for Coal’s Troubles”