All posts in transmission


Western States Could Reach 35% Renewable Power by 2017

May 24, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
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<!--break--> The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) says the western US electric grid could harness up to 35 percent of its energy from wind and solar power within seven years — and without any major upgrades to the existing electric network. All it would take, says NREL’s Western Wind and Solar Integration Study, is a... [read more]

Building a North Sea Supergrid

May 15, 2010 by Big Gav
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<!--break--> REW has an article on a new proposal for a north sea supergrid - Stakeholders Team Up To Expand Europe's Super-Grid. Europe has plenty of grid initiatives to help meets its ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions with the help of renewable energies, such as wind and solar. Now it just needs an action plan.... [read more]

Transmission Stalls European Offshore Wind Power

April 4, 2010 by Big Gav
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<!--break--> Renewable Energy World has an article on the need to expand transmission capacity to handle increased generation from offshore wind farms in Europe - Transmission Stalls European Offshore Wind Power. Germany's first offshore wind farm has been built and is now generating electricity. Dozens more wind farms are slated... [read more]

Push for More Wind Power Where Most Needed

March 30, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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<!--break--> Chicago Tribune reporter Julie Wernau got this blogz attention with the title of her article, “Putting wind-generated power where it’s needed.” Her article focuses upon 2 critical elements: 1) putting turbines where wind energy is suitable and 2) building wind farms that are capable of linking to the grid. A new NREL... [read more]

Incentives for efficient use of storage in electric power systems

March 28, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> In the most recent Energy Journal, Ramteem Sioshonsi has an article examining the welfare effects of the incentives to use energy storage in electric power systems. (“Welfare Impacts of Electricity Storage and the Implications of Ownership Structure,” See volume 31:2 here.) He considers the incentives faced by consumers... [read more]

Transmitting the Clean Energy Future - Supreme Court dashes hopes for federal transmission siting

January 27, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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<!--break--> An older transmission power track and power line stands tall against a Kansas sunset north of Topeka, Kansas. Utilities are vying to build a new power system to stretch across the state that would give six times more capacity than the present systems. The upgraded systems will be needed to help fully harness wind power... [read more]

Energy storage on the grid: transmission equipment or market participant? (Again)

January 26, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> In the wholesale power markets world, commercial energy storage concepts are commonly somewhat of an afterthought. None of the large regional wholesale power markets integrated into transmission operations put too much effort into thinking about energy storage as they developed their market rules. A part of the problem... [read more]

Adaptation | Smart Grids and Solar Power

January 10, 2010 by Anja Atkinson
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<!--break--> . Running across the terms smart grid or super grid has become common enough by 2010. What can smart grids do for civil society and our future? In the context of global scale clean energy systems it means everything. In fact in the face of global population growth, without the development of smart grids we might be... [read more]

The Cost of Transmission

December 30, 2009 by Tom Konrad
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<!--break--> I’ve been reading a report out of the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office called The REDI Report: Connecting Colorado’s Renewable Resources to the Markets in a Carbon-Constrained Electricity Sector.  I summarized the REDI report’s main conclusions and drew some conclusions for stock market investors here. I found the... [read more]

More Tres Amigas interconnection details revealed in FERC filings

December 9, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> Today Tres Amigas LLC submitted two filings to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, one seeking assurance from FERC that linking the ERCOT system to the proposed interconnection project would not subject ERCOT to FERC jurisdiction, and the other seeking authority to sell transmission services at negotiated rates.... [read more]

Nuks and the Grid: "Smart Grid" Verses Smart Grid Design

December 2, 2009 by Charles Barton
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<!--break--> A computer simulation of a nuclear dominated grid is not nearly as urgent an issue as the computer simulation of of a renewables dominated grid. We know that reactor generated power is reliable enough that a nuclear dominated grid will be at least as reliable as the present 20% nuclear grid. A sophisticated, multi-... [read more]

Tom Konrad: We need transmission!

November 22, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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<!--break--> Today’s guest post comes from Tom Konrad, Ph.D., an investment analyst specializing in clean energy.  Tom, who is 40, and calls himself a policy wonk, lives in Denver and writes about stock market investments in clean energy at his excellent blog, AltEnergyStocks.com. Tom wrote this article  in response to a... [read more]