Posted: 10 Feb 2016 02:39 AM PST
Electricity
in the U.S. is going through massive changes: the generation mix is
shifting, regulatory and industry models are evolving, and policy is
playing an ever important role. These changes can be hard to
conceptualize, particularly when trying to make sense of how multiple
factors interact with each other.read more
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Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:09 AM PST
Right
of ways are required to ensure providers can build, operate and
maintain systems that bring energy from its points of production to its
points of consumption. In view of the difficulty in obtaining them, the
fewer we can get by with the better.read more
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Posted: 10 Feb 2016 12:40 AM PST
The
Clean Power Plan requires states to take grid reliability into account
when developing their compliance plans. What does this mean? New
guidance from the NERC, the organization which oversees the reliability
of the North American electricity system, provides some answers.read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 11:00 PM PST
Demand
response in the electricity market involves the targeted reduction of
electricity use during times of high demand. A recent Supreme Court
ruling is expected to result in faster growth in demand response in the
wholesale electricity markets that cover about 60% of U.S. power supply.read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 10:15 PM PST
On
one of the coldest days in January, a group of MIT students and staff
boarded a bus to the small peninsula town of Hull, Massachusetts, for an
MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) wind turbine tour during the Institute’s
Independent Activities Period (IAP).read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 09:42 PM PST
FirstEnergy’s
plea to keep four aging power plants alive will cost Ohio customers
almost $4 billion, according to a new study out today by the Institute
for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The proposal is
currently in front of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO).read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 08:00 PM PST
Brian
Bagnell, CFA, is a research analyst in Canadian oil and gas company
analysis for Macquarie Capital Markets. He was formerly an investment
associate at NB Investment Management. He holds a bachelor's in business
administration (finance and accounting) from the University of New
Brunswick.read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 07:34 PM PST
The
American Nuclear Society (ANS) introduced the Nuclear in the States
Toolkit, Version 1.0 at a media event in Washington, D.C. The toolkit
catalogs policies related to new and existing nuclear reactors for state
policymakers to consider as they draft their Clean Power Plan
compliance strategies.read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 06:36 PM PST
Sometime
between June 24, 2015 and January 21, 2016, a building remodeling
project in Steamboat Springs, CO resulted in the loss of 7.5 curies of
tritium. A reasonable guess is that the container holding the tritium
was tossed into a construction debris dumpster and carted off to a local
landfill.read more
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Posted: 09 Feb 2016 05:26 PM PST
Amid
Snowzilla’s winter of discontent, the Supreme Court ruled on EPSA v.
FERC, a case that had the power to define the future of the demand
response market. In a big win for advanced energy, the court ruled that
the FERC’s) Order 745 would stay in place.read more
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