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Friday Mar 5, 2021 |
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While ERCOT has been busy grabbing all the headlines over the past several weeks, Texas was not the only region impacted by what is now being referred to by many as Winter Storm Uri. On Tuesday, February 16, almost three quarters of the continental U.S. was under cover of snow. With ...
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Thursday Mar 4, 2021 |
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A couple of weeks make a big difference when it comes to balancing the grid across the Plains and the Lone Star State. It has been well documented in the press and at the hearings in front of the State Senate committee on how close the ERCOT's electrical grid was to going dark as the ...
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Wednesday Mar 3, 2021 |
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authored by Rick Margolin
Despite years of resistance I have recently caved in to the advice of my wife and friends whose advice I trust. I started wearing slimmer fitting jeans. It is not my native habitat. I resisted out of concern that such garments would really limit my ...
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Tuesday Mar 2, 2021 |
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Now that the Lower 48 is on the downside of the seasonal heating degree day curve it is time to do maintenance on the energy infrastructure. Pipelines, storage facilities, transmission and generation will all start outages in order to keep the equipment in order for the summer cooling season. In ...
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Monday Mar 1, 2021 |
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It has been over a week since Mother Nature put an end to the extreme cold weather pattern that swept deep into Lone Star State. The fallout is quite extreme as many load serving entities are now seeing the their meter readings, key members of each company is sitting in front of the hearing ...
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Friday Feb 26, 2021 |
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) recently published a report examining the effects of solar deployment in the U.S. With results for not only the seven ISOs, but also for ten non-ISO utilities in the west and southeast, "Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market ...
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Thursday Feb 25, 2021 |
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It has been less than a week since Mother Nature was putting her final stamp on the South Central weather pattern that turned the regional natural gas and electricity markets upside down. The indicators of such an event were in the 15-day forecast as we started the month but nobody was ...
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Wednesday Feb 24, 2021 |
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Lost amid the cataclysmic shock inflicted on the Texas and South Central energy markets last week were the record-setting bouts of volatility that have hit Canadian power and gas markets this month. Thankfully, what happened in Canada did not result in power outages with lethal ...
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Tuesday Feb 23, 2021 |
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Last week provided the biggest price shock in the history of the natural gas market as daily indices in Oklahoma and Texas ran up from $2.75 to $500 in a moments notice. Coming out of the long weekend and the South Central fully entrenched in a polar vortex situation, the cash price jumped up ...
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Monday Feb 22, 2021 |
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How Much is Enough Reliability?
By Tim Belden
How much reliability should consumers be required to buy? The question is rarely presented in that way, but that’s the central issue surrounding ERCOT’s unique market structure and the horrific blackouts from last week. For a moment ...
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