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The right market design for trade between power markets

May 7, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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Windpower Monthly has a great article describing changes in the market for transmission capacity between power systems in Europe and the benefits of the changes.  Here is a summary by way of selected quotes, but the full story is worth reading: Most of the electricity cables connecting Europe were built when electricity systems in... [read more]

Incentives for efficient use of storage in electric power systems

March 28, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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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, generators,... [read more]

Tres Amigas gets half a loaf from FERC, tips on gaining other half

March 23, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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On March 18, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission acted on the Tres Amigas project’s two regulatory requests submitted last October.  Tres Amigas has proposed to link the large scale power interconnections covering the eastern and western halves of the United States with the ERCOT interconnection in Texas.  The New Mexico-... [read more]

Tres Amigas wants to take cheap electric power away from hard-working Texas families

February 8, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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I spent the middle of last week in Austin at the University of Texas-Law conference on wind, solar and geothermal energy law, and as a side bonus got to hear some informal, Austin-based commentary on the Tres Amigas proposal to interconnect the Eastern, Western, and Texas electric grids. It will give you some idea of the thinking in... [read more]

Texas and the Tres Amigas interconnection

January 13, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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Over the holiday NYTimes.com posted a story by ClimateWire reporter Peter Behr that does a pretty good job of describing the proposed Tres Amigas project (proposing to link the three main electric regions in the U.S. – Eastern, Western, and Texas) and surrounding issues.  Among other things, the story provides a good short summary... [read more]

More Tres Amigas interconnection details revealed in FERC filings

December 9, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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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. According to the... [read more]

Market designs for Tres Amigas: How about trilateral market coupling?

October 21, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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More thoughts on economic issues related to the Tres Amigas project, an ambitious proposal to connect the Western, Eastern, and Texas electric grids via a three-way high tech transmission link located in eastern New Mexico. (Earlier: Tres Amigas intro and Economics for …). Europeans have had several years of experience connecting... [read more]

Economics for Tres Amigas

October 17, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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Tres Amigas is a proposed project to link the Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection (ERCOT) by means of a high-tech three-way superconducting AC-DC-AC connection. You might wonder what economics has to say about such an unprecedented and innovative proposal Consider this summary from Ralph... [read more]

Tres Amigas project proposes to connect Eastern, Western, and Texas power grids

October 14, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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A high-profile, high-technology power project is making waves well beyond the small town of Clovis, New Mexico, where it has secured land for development. I’ve been telling my students and anyone else I can induce to listen to me for a few minutes (i.e., mostly just my students) that my new hometown of Lubbock, Texas is in an... [read more]