The U.S. Depart of Energy Publishes Additional Protocol for Estimating Energy Savings
Submitted by aburr on Thu, 2014-10-16 15:24The U.S.
Energy Storage Surges Ahead
Submitted by meacott on Thu, 2014-10-16 11:37Energy storage is charging ahead, thanks in no small part to the work of Duke Energy and Southern California Edison, with each optimistic that its investment will pay off.
Energy storage is charging ahead, thanks in no small part to the work of two utilities, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy. Duke Energy and Southern California Edison are now operating two of the biggest such projects in North America, with each optimistic that its investment will pay off.
Fortnightly Magazine - October 2014 Phone Friendly digital edition
Submitted by meacott on Sat, 2014-10-11 19:15Fortnightly Magazine - October 2014 digital edition
Submitted by meacott on Sat, 2014-10-11 19:14Digest (Oct 2014)
Vattenfall awards Siemens Energy contract for wind turbines; Minnesota Power to build solar energy array at Minnesota National Guard Camp Ripley; Echelon agrees to sell grid operations to S&T AG; DTE Energy teams with Ford Motor Company to build Michigan’s largest solar array.
From Coal to Gas
Regulatory and environmental challenges for power plant conversions under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
Converting a power plant from coal to natural gas triggers a host of environmental challenges and regulatory issues. Operators could be trading one set of regulatory obligations, liabilities, and costs for another, equally problematic, set of liabilities and costs.
Unleashing Energy Efficiency
The Best Way to Comply with EPA’s Clean Power Plan
A framework for measuring the resource value of energy efficiency – touted as the best way for states to comply with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
EPA's Clean Power Plan: An Unequal Burden
The Clean Power Plan's largest obstacle is how its cost is distributed disproportionately among the states.
How the Clean Power Plan introduced in June by the Environmental Protection Agency will produce widely differing compliance obligations among the states, in terms of emissions targets, likely carbon prices, and effects on wholesale power prices.
A Greener Standard Offer
A new model to help restructured states add renewables to the default service portfolio.
By taking the intermittent supply of the renewable generator out of the generator’s compensation, the developer (and lenders) receive the stability they crave while supply customers avoid products they do not need.
Triggering & Tailoring
What the Supreme Court said, and didn’t.
Justice Scalia saw the need for tailoring as proof that EPA’s Triggering Rule was mistaken.