Transmission & Distribution: Page 132
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California real-time market opens to outside systems
The new market will help cut costs and integrate renewable resources
By Robert Walton • Oct. 1, 2014 -
NERC finds grid performed reasonably well during polar vortex
Communication and demand response helped the grid through record cold last winter, but improvements are needed, the report said.
By Robert Walton • Oct. 1, 2014 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineGrid Resiliency
Utilities and grid operators are facing increasing threats from climate change as well as cyber and physical attacks, and are deploying a variety of responses to meet the rising challenges.
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Duke Florida under increasing pressure from lawmakers in crucial week
Florida legislators want to make Duke refund $54 million to consumers, investigate its ties with PSC
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 30, 2014 -
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Texas PUC says CenterPoint must share Houston Import Project
The decision effectively calls the transmission initiative six different “projects.”
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 29, 2014 -
NiSource splits utility, gas businesses
The spinoff will result in two companies, NiSource and Columbia Pipeline Partners LP.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 29, 2014 -
Deep Dive
How this New York utility plans to own and operate microgrids
Central Hudson Gas & Electric has broadly outlined a proposal to build, own and operate microgrids for customers.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 29, 2014 -
EnerNOC: FERC Order 745 ruling won't kill demand response
It is too late for a court decision to stem the value of distributed resources, according to the president of EnerNOC.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 29, 2014 -
Buffett's Berkshire, CenterPoint and NextEra weigh bids for Oncor
A bidding war may soon erupt over Energy Future Holdings' prized asset.
By Gavin Bade • Sept. 25, 2014 -
HECO completes first phase of smart grid roll-out
Installation in Oahu marks an important step in the utility's energy vision.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 25, 2014 -
SoCal Edison unveils largest battery storage system in U.S.
The 32 megawatt-hour system will teach utilities lessons about storage and variable renewables.
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 24, 2014 -
Duke Energy, partners propose groundbreaking $8B wind-storage-transmission project
Wyoming wind would be stored in Utah for dispatch to California.
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 23, 2014 -
Dominion plans to bury 4,000 miles of power lines
The ambitious project would target the most outage-prone power lines.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 22, 2014 -
MISO: Midwest states to save $3B per year if they work together on EPA compliance
MISO found that states cooperating at the regional level could save $3 billion annually.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 21, 2014 -
BGE: Energy efficiency programs save 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours per year
The utility is working to help meet Maryland's goal of decreasing energy demand by 15% by 2015.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 21, 2014 -
King Fire threatens California's hydro infrastructure
Employees evacuate as utilities scramble for power market supply.
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 19, 2014 -
Generators, renewable developers at odds over Texas transmission cost allocations
Conventional and renewable power producers are split over the cost of renewables to the grid.
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 19, 2014 -
ISO: Planned retirements weaken New York reliability
The New York-ISO has issued its 2014 Reliability Needs Assessment.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 18, 2014 -
Energy Department funds ComEd to develop microgrid controller
$1.2 million will be used to build a master controller.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 18, 2014 -
Hawaiian Electric system feels strain of heat wave, low reserves
The utility is asking customers to conserve.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 17, 2014 -
Deep Dive
New York writes blueprint for brave new utility world
A straw proposal from New York regulators has left utilities wondering about their future.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 17, 2014 -
Federal agencies approve Basin Electric's transmission plan in North Dakota
The utility will begin construction without other federal approvals to deliver power to oil drillers.
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 17, 2014 -
California heat wave sets new peak demand record for Los Angeles utility
Both San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power have asked customers to curtail demand.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 16, 2014 -
New England's demand remains flat on surge of energy efficiency, distributed resources
The region is struggling with a growing dependence on natural gas.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 16, 2014 -
Real-time pricing helps We Energies' industrial customers keep rates down
Some argue the rates are unfairly subsidized by residential customers.
By Robert Walton • Sept. 16, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Can Warren Buffett's Pacificorp bring the Northwest's renewable riches to market?
The Energy Gateway will change the way America uses energy – when it gets finished.
By Herman K. Trabish • Sept. 15, 2014
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