Value of Hydropower in a Dynamic Energy Frontier
Key to Low-Carbon Future
“Hydropower is one of the largest generators of clean, renewable electricity.”
Generation & Markets
Hawaiian Electric: Jack Shriver
Director for Generation Project Development
“Our islands are relatively small, and the acreage footprint is going to start to become a more contentious issue. We’re going to need to look for technologies that don’t use up as much of our precious resources.”
2018 Carbon Dioxide Emission Trends
Explaining the 2018 Increase
Despite the recent uptick in 2018, total generation has been relatively steady in recent years, showing no distinct upward or downward long-term trend for several years.
Half Moon Bay: Wind Farm Capacity Utilization Demonstration
Accenture
A wind farm shows how to improve installed capacity utilization and generation for utilities.
Michigan PSC: Electric Generation Infrastructure
Julie Baldwin, Cathy Cole, and Pat Poli
“We want to make sure that everyone who works on the rate cases are going to be prepared..”
Your 2017 Fortnightly Top Forty Innovators
First Fantastic Forty
The first transformational transmission line design in nearly fifty years? They developed it. The world's first battery/gas turbine hybrid system at existing peakers. They developed it too.
The world's first underground spent fuel storage facility at an operating nuclear plant. They developed it. One of the first distribution utility natural gas compressors. They developed it too.
Vertical climbing inspection robots. They developed them. Transmission line crawling inspection robots. They developed them too.
Dispatch Order: Industry Names We Miss
Here's our list of twenty-four.
We miss them. Like old friends that moved on. Where are they now?
New Year 2017: The Trump Administration
Change Will Occur, Slowly
It is not possible to know what priorities the new administration will pursue. It is possible for legislators, regulators, and utilities to make some assumptions: coal will continue to decline as a generation fuel, previous utility investment and court decisions will carry forward. Legislators will continue to promote generation fuel diversity to best ensure system reliability.
Success Strategies in New Japanese Electric Power Market
Part 3 in a Series on Electric Power in Japan
The pace of learning must accelerate so that players in the new Japanese electric power market are prepared to succeed. For retail entrants, the key will be to diversify, in both the retail and wholesale portions of their business.
Vision of Liquefied Natural Gas Hub
Mirage on the Ocean?
Want to ramp up U.S. LNG exports to Europe? Dr. Olive, an expert from NERA, takes us through the limitations and barriers of the European market.