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Friday Dec 3, 2021 |
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The duck curve in CAISO is a well-talked-about phenomenon: during the middle of the day, as solar comes online, it makes a dent in the net load (net load is defined as load minus wind and solar), and the size of the dent has grown over time as more solar has been installed. Plotting several ...
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Thursday Dec 2, 2021 |
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Over the past few days, ERCOT has delivered some price spikes come the real-time market’s morning and evening ramp block of hours. You can clearly see from the graph below that we are not talking near capacity levels by any means but the simple fact that both intraday real-time periods ...
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Wednesday Dec 1, 2021 |
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“I can guarantee the lights will stay on…”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott made that statement to an Austin radio station last week. The comment was in response to a report issued by FERC and the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) warning that ERCOT is still at ...
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021 |
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A month ago we sent a blog about the recent approval of the California Public Utilities Commission to increase the capacity at the beleaguered Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility just north of Los Angeles from 34 to 41 BCF. This was done in the aftermath of one of a a recent ...
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Monday Nov 29, 2021 |
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The latest models are continuing the warm pattern across most of the West and Rockies with normal conditions throughout the East and Midwest. In the WSI commentary they are cautioning that the persistence of the pattern suggests warmer risks ahead as the Alaskan ridge is likely to shift. Until some ...
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Wednesday Nov 24, 2021 |
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I first got started in the natural gas world in Summer 2010. That November, weather across the Lower 48 was trending fairly warm; no significant cold bursts had hit. As December approached, I recall the more seasoned veterans in our group exclaiming: “If we weather doesn’t ...
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021 |
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Last week we presented an issue with the coal operations in the Midwest and Mid Atlantic where output had fallen in response to recent announcements that supply chain issues have constrained operations. Combined PJM and MISO around the clock coal output fell 14 GWa combined during the second week ...
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Monday Nov 22, 2021 |
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We’ve seen the impact of the expanded wind capacity in SPP throughout 2021. With about 2 GW of wind buildout compared to this time last year, average generation from wind in the region was 1.8 GW higher this past September than in September of 2020, 1.3 GW higher in October, and 500 MW ...
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Friday Nov 19, 2021 |
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The Northwest Power Pool (NWPP) hosted a webinar this week on the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP), formerly known as the Northwest Resource Adequacy (RA) Program. The WRAP is progressing forward and entering the first non-binding Forward Showing (FS) program (Phase 3A).
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Thursday Nov 18, 2021 |
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The flooding in the Pacific Northwest has received a lot of attention over the past couple of days given neighborhoods and highways look like scenes from Texas, Louisiana and/or Mississippi in the aftermath of a hurricane. Similar to such a storm that swirls from the Atlantic Ocean into the ...
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