(Mon, 26 Sep 2011) Electric power usually costs more in New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley than in the rest of New York due to transmission constraints on moving power into the New York City area. The chart below, published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, shows a typical example of diverging prices for those regions in the day—ahead market.
EIA: What’s New
Transmission congestion drives power price division between upstate and downstate New York
September 26, 2011 by ·
Photovoltaic Power for Europe: An Assessment Study (Solar Energy R&D in the Ec Series C:)
September 23, 2011 by ·
Wholesale power price maps reflect real-time constraints on transmission of electricity
September 20, 2011 by ·
(Tue, 20 Sep 2011) Wholesale electricity prices change throughout the day and night, depending on many factors including the level of demand for electricity and the varying costs of generating power from different types of generators. Wholesale electricity price maps are a useful resource for visualizing location-specific prices and transmission constraints in real time.
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Harvest Power Superheroes program and resource library
September 22, 2010 by ·
Harvest Power, a developer of renewable energy and compost facilities for next-generation organics recycling, today introduced the Harvest Power Superheroes program and resource library, a knowledge-sharing initiative to encourage source separated organics (SSO) programs in communities throughout North America. The Harvest program both recognizes …
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Emissions Trading Works
September 14, 2010 by ·
Planned investment by European utilities and RWE AG’s cancellation of a coal plant in Poland demonstrates that emissions trading works, according to an analyst at the investment bank of Barclays Plc.
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Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities
August 27, 2010 by ·
A new national policy on climate change is under debate in the United States and is likely to result in a cap on greenhouse gas emissions for utilities. This and other developments will prompt utilities to undergo the largest changes in their history. Smart Power examines the many facets of this unprecedented transformation. This enlightening book begins with a look back on the deregulatory efforts of the 1990s and their gradual replacement by concerns over climate change, promoting new techno
Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities
Offshore Power: Building Renewable Energy Projects in U.S. Waters
August 27, 2010 by ·
As the United States seeks ways to meet the ever-increasing power needs of its large coastal population areas, there’s a growing focus on the plentiful renewable energy resources located just offshore.
In their new book, energy experts Markian Melnyk and Robert Andersen outline the important new offshore options available to a nation on the threshold of a green revolution. The experience gained by early offshore oil and gas prospectors, as well as by more recent developers of
Offshore Power: Building Renewable Energy Projects in U.S. Waters
