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Grid Mod: Dialing in Hydroelectric Generators' Responses to Market Signals
How do you reduce error between scheduled hydro-generation and the actual power produced? BPA's answer: Form a tight partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and evaluate existing systems and processes for areas of improvement.For years BPA, USACE and the Bureau of Reclamation have dealt with varying levels of Station Control Error (SCE) on the non-big 10 federal projects. The non-big 10 ...
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Green mountain power chief addresses national regulators conference
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Green Mountain Power, Mary Powell, today addressed the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) about the benefits of large hydroelectric generation in a carbon constrained world. Ms. Powell told the commissioners that the Vermont Legislature this year was the first in the country to designate large hydro as a renewable ...
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EIA`s new energy visualization widget embeds interactive charts and maps on any website
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today released a new widget that allows internet users to display interactive visualizations of current energy data from EIA on their own websites. The widget pulls user-selected data from EIA's application programming interface (API) to create maps, line charts, pie charts, and bar graphs. The interactive visualizations are configured to always ...
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New Data Indicates California Remains Ahead of Clean Electricity Goals
Data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) shows that 59 percent of the state's electricity came from renewable and zero-carbon sources in 2020. The CEC estimates that in 2020, 34.5 percent of the state's retail electricity sales were served by Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)-eligible sources such as solar and wind. When sources of zero-carbon energy such as large hydroelectric ...
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NextEra Energy Resources completes sale of hydro generating assets to a subsidiary of Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, L.P.
NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the competitive energy subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NEE), today announced that one of its subsidiaries has completed the sale of all of its equity interests in White Pine Hydro Investments, LLC, which indirectly owns 351 megawatts (MW) of hydro generation related assets in Maine and New Hampshire through FPL Energy Maine Hydro, LLC (Maine Hydro). ...
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Duke Energy Carolinas Issues Request for Proposals for Capacity and Energy
Duke Energy Carolinas today is issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to purchase up to 1,500 megawatts of intermediate and/or peaking electricity generation (capacity and energy) in the 2015 to 2017 timeframe. The company has a diverse and long-term sustainable strategy to ensure it can deliver on its commitment to customers to provide affordable, reliable and clean electricity today and for ...
By Duke Energy
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Duke Energy Carolinas Issues a Request for Proposals for Wind Generation
Duke Energy Carolinas is issuing a request for proposals for energy and renewable energy certificates produced from wind generation that can be delivered to the Duke Energy Carolinas transmission system. The company will also accept bids for the renewable energy certificates, without the associated energy, from qualifying wind generation facilities located within North Carolina. The company ...
By Duke Energy
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New Data Shows Growth in California's Clean Electricity Portfolio and Battery Storage Capacity
The latest data from the California Energy Commission (CEC) shows that in 2021 more than 37 percent of the state's electricity came from Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)-eligible sources such as solar and wind, an increase of 2.7 percent compared to 2020. When combined with other sources of zero-carbon energy such as large hydroelectric generation and nuclear, nearly 59 percent of the state's ...
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ANDRITZ receives important order for a new pumped storage plant in Portugal
ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH, a member of international technology group ANDRITZ, has been contracted by the Spanish energy utility IBERDROLA GENERACIÓN to supply the electro-mechanical equipment and the penstock for the new pumped storage hydropower plant Gouvães in Portugal. The total contract value for ANDRITZ amounts to about 140 million euros. The scope of delivery comprises design, ...
By Andritz AG
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Tacoma Public Utilities Adopts OSI Technology for an Advanced Energy Management System
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been selected by Tacoma Public Utilities (mytpu.org) to supply a state-of-the-art Energy Management System (EMS) based on OSI's monarch (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform. This will replace Tacoma's legacy ABB system. A publicly owned utility, Tacoma Power provides electricity to Tacoma, Washington and the surrounding areas, serving ...
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ALLCOT registers the first LatAm TIGRs project with APX
ALLCOT has registered the first TIGRs project from Latin America certified by APX, a leading provider of infrastructure solutions to the environmental and energy markets. The project is a hydro plant situated on the Guatemalan highlands of San Marcos. Tradable Instruments for Global Renewables or TIGRs℠ are a new product for the voluntary renewable energy markets launched by APX last year, ...
By ALLCOT
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Plutonic Power & GE submit bids for more than US$4bn in hydroelectric projects
Plutonic Power Corporation (PCC: TSX) joined with GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), in submitting two bids for hydroelectric power projects costing more than $4 billion, which would be Canada’s largest single private sector hydroelectric generation investment. The submissions into BC Hydro’s 2008 Clean Power Call outline the development of approximately 1,200 megawatts of ...
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New York Power Authority Implements Continuous Protection System Monitoring on its Statewide Transmission System
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has begun implementing continuous protection system monitoring to survey the equipment health of transformers and protective relays at its switchyards and substations throughout the state. As a program under NYPA’s Smart Generation and Transmission strategic initiative, implementation of the system marks a significant step forward in delivering on NYPA’s ...
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Eaton Leads Electrical Modernization at Green Mountain Power Hydroelectric Facility in Vermont
Power management company Eaton today announced it is helping Green Mountain Power (GMP) modernize, upgrade and automate the electrical system at its Proctor, Vermont hydroelectric plant. Under the contract, Eaton will update the plant’s power and control systems – allowing GMP to reduce costs, enhance reliability and manage the facility remotely. The project supports Green Mountain ...
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Oconee Nuclear Station Projects Honored with Three Awards by the Nuclear Energy Institute
Duke Energy's Oconee Nuclear Station has received the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) prestigious "Best of the Best" Award for the first digital upgrade of a nuclear safety-related system in the U.S. The award was presented during NEI's Nuclear Energy Assembly on May 23, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C. Oconee's digital upgrade of a reactor protection system (RPS) and engineered safeguards ...
By Duke Energy
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New York Power Authority to Improve Reliability of NYPA Generation and Transmission Assets
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) recently (7/18) announced it is aggressively advancing efforts to deliver on its strategic initiative to build smart generation and transmission capabilities across New York State through an expansion of its Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) program and upgrades to its Convertible Static Compensator (CSC). The two digitization projects support Governor Andrew M. ...
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State Energy Profiles enhanced and renewables sections added
As with national trends, the energy sectors in each state continue to experience rapid changes, including increased oil and natural gas production, new renewable electricity generation, and changing motor gasoline prices. With these and other energy trends in mind, the U.S. Energy Information Administration updated its State Energy Profiles, which are available through EIA's State Energy Portal. ...
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Hydro beats nuclear and coal, beats oil and gas
Researchers in Italy and the UK have reviewed the economic, social and environmental impact of hydro, coal, oil, gas and nuclear power. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, but of these conventional electricity generation technologies, hydroelectric power appears to be the most sustainable and acceptable environmentally and economically. Nuclear and coal run a close second place but oil or ...
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Eaton helps California’s Central Valley Project Meet Peak Water Demands
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation today announced a $2.2 million United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) contract to replace critical electrical components at the Trinity, Judge Francis Carr and Spring Creek hydroelectric power plants in Shasta County, Calif. The three hydroelectric facilities are responsible for generating and transferring electricity when the ...
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One of North Carolina`s Largest Solar Farms Debuts in Kings Mountain
A total of 22,000 new solar panels in Cleveland County, N.C., today are pointed at the sun, generating enough power for 616 average-sized homes in the region. The facility, named Kings Mountain Solar, was developed by Chapel Hill-based Strata Solar. It joins a growing list of projects in North Carolina, and is one of the largest in the state. Under a 20-year contract, Duke Energy Carolinas ...
By Duke Energy
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