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Bringing Transparency To Transmission Planning

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The average US customer is paying only 7% of their electricity bill to cover transmission investment, John Jimison of the Energy Future Coalition told Breaking Energy in this video from the US Association for Energy Economics Conference in Washington, DC.

As regulators move to address a “decades-long under-investment in transmission,” a number of incumbent utilities are opposing the approach the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has taken in one of its most recent orders, widely known as FERC 1000. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM

LG Doubles Down On Solar

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Large technology and manufacturing firms are boosting their investment in solar components, leveraging large balance sheets and access to capital as they introduce new products while smaller competitors struggle.

The collapsing price of solar panels has brought down several firms in recent months, and is blamed in part for the high-profile bankruptcy of Solyndra, a Department of Energy-backed firm that claimed it had a high-technology solution but was unable to bring down costs or expand quickly enough in the rapidly-transforming solar business. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 20, 2011 at 6:00 AM

The Daily Stat: Saving Energy Because The Neighbors Do

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The Daily Stat: Saving Energy Because the Neighbors Do http://s.hbr.org/qnMl4a HarvardBiz

 /  Published October 19, 2011 at 11:00 AM

One Billion Megawatt Hours

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Financial innovation and energy trading have regularly gone hand-in-hand, as utilities and other firms constantly seek to hedge their exposure to price volatility or take bets on the perennially volatile energy business.

Open interest, or the number of positions open in existing contracts, hit the landmark one billion megawatt-hours level on the CME Group’s trading platforms this week. CME Group owns NYMEX, a formerly independent exchange that hosts trading in the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil contract. The firm has made a concerted push in building out its energy business across a range of financial products, from floor-traded futures contracts to options and other products across a range of energy commodities. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 19, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Kinder Morgan Accelerates Growth With El Paso Purchase

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Kinder Morgan will pay $38 billion to purchase El Paso Corporation, creating a new giant in the lucrative business of moving energy supplies to market.

The $94 billion combined company will own roughly 80,000 miles of pipelines and become the fourth largest energy company in the US. The deal announcement is rife with precedent-setting statistics; the new Kinder Morgan will include the largest natural gas pipeline system in the US, the largest independent transporter of petroleum products and the largest independent terminal owner and operator in the country. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 18, 2011 at 6:00 AM

North Dakota was dead last in energy efficiency in 2010 can it climb?

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North Dakota was dead last in energy efficiency in 2010. Can it climb? Big reveal is 10/20: #ACEEEScorecard http://bit.ly/reJKKA ACEEEdc

 /  Published October 17, 2011 at 10:20 AM

Electric Cars Hit The East Coast Grid

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Northeast and mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM Interconnect on Monday welcomed a new project to promote technology that can use battery power from electric vehicles to smooth peaks and troughs in grid demand.

Vehicle to grid technology, or V2G, has been developed over more than a decade by University of Delaware professor Willett Kempton, and has been shown through several prototype electric cars to be an effective way of providing a significant untapped source of energy to the national grid. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 27, 2011 at 6:00 AM

The Smart Grid Seal Of Approval

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Modeled after the LEED building certification, the Perfect Power Seal of Approval would recognize excellence in smart grid development.

Currently one of the primary goals of the Galvin Electricity Initiative, the seal would measure reliability, efficiency, cost and consumer empowerment metrics of microgrids and smart grid systems. It is intended as a way to standardize and ensure quality of what is for many customers often still a suspicious system. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Consumers have one over-arching question about SmartGrid

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Consumers have one over-arching question about #SmartGrid: Whats in it for me? – Laura Formusa, Pres & CEO, HydroOne, at #GridWeek. GridWeek

 /  Published September 12, 2011 at 9:45 AM

Surfing The ‘Accelerating Wave’ Of Solar Adoption

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The solar industry is changing as it grows, providing a rare opportunity to see an evolving market at work.

For those firms facing bankruptcies and operational problems, the change can seem daunting, but for firms backed by significant balance sheets and buoyed by robust development pipelines, the changes only highlight the opportunities. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 12, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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