Sentences with phrase «electric reliability council»

The state's overall wind average is significantly lower than these spikes: Last year Texas got 6.2 percent of its electricity from wind, according to Dottie Roark, a spokeswoman for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the grid serving most of the state.

Indeed, last month the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that the latest data on wind turbine performance and costs suggests that wind power is likely to be more cost - effective than natural gas over the next 20 years, and it could account for the majority of new generating capacity added over that that time in Texas.

The 3.6 gigawatts of capacity installed in the south power zone of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is a different matter.

At that moment, wind supplied almost 29 % of total electricity load, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid's operator.

In 2014, more than 10 % of the electricity used in the grid covering most of Texas came from wind generation, according to the grid's operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

In 1968, the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) was formed to coordinate the regional councils.

With that in mind, the main Texas grid operator ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) reported that it had achieved an instantaneous output of 10,296 MW for wind power at 8:48 on the night of March 26.

So much wind power was being supplied that Texas» grid operator that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) reported wholesale electricity prices reached near zero and, in some cases, rates went negative.

-- This section does not apply in the State of Alaska or Hawaii or to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, unless the State or the Council voluntarily elects to participate in a cost allocation plan under this section.».

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on April 30 updated its summer 2018 planning reserve margin to 11 % based on resource updates, but it warned that the regional grid serving most of Texas could still suffer rotating outages under extreme conditions.

Although this project was developed to satisfy requirements for a wind site operating within the ERCOT region, it is compatible with any operating wind farm that contains voltage and current transformers at the wind farm feed - in point (connection point to the grid) in any electric reliability council.

For example, the Texas grid is called «The Electric Reliability Council of Texas «The name says it all — Reliability.

The recent retirement of older generating units and high peak usage owing to economic growth could tighten operating reserves in the region served by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) this summer.

FERC in October 2006 found that competitive markets in five regions — the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, PJM Interconnection, ISO - New England, the New York Independent System Operator and Electric Reliability Council of Texas — met the qualifications for competitive markets under the 2005 law.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas reports that wind farms produced nearly 10 percent of the electricity delivered to its 24 million customers in 2013.

Wind often supplies about 20 percent or more of the power in Texas during the windiest parts of the day, according to grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Wind generation in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Thursday set a record for power production at one time for the second time this month.

Texas Waves are designed to provide ancillary services to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market and will be capable of responding to shifts in power demand more quickly, increasing system reliability and efficiency.

Wind set its latest record in February, when it accounted for a third of generation on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas grid.

Wind generation in Texas fell 19 percent between July and August, according to Genscape estimates for production for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas grid.

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The latest all - time instantaneous peak of 12,238 megawatts (MW) reached on October 22 replaced the short - lived records of 11,467 MW on September 13 and 11,950 MW on October 21, based on data from the grid's operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

There's more demand than ever for electric power straining the Electric Reliability Council of Texas grid, and other US power markets are also seeing shifts.

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Because of intermittency and seasonal variability, the Texas grid (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) rates wind generation only at 8.7 percent of wind's installed capacity.

But because of wind's variable nature, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the grid, only includes 8.7 percent of wind generation in estimating available power at peak conditions, even though it frequently generates a much greater amount.

The latest report by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) shows both these trends, and shows solar as the largest source of new generation expected to come online in the next few months to meet summer demand.

Additional power data for this project was provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

A huge 1965 blackout in the Northeast prompted utilities to create the North American Electric Reliability Council — now called the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)-- to coordinate efforts to improve system reliability.

Texas, in an echo of its history as an independent republic, comprises its own grid, now called the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Pictured here is the grid control center for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Because Georgetown's electricity grid is managed by a regional entity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the city is well - positioned for 100 percent renewable electricity, Edgar said.

All of the new solar energy must be produced within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas territory, officials said, and proposals are due by May 15.

Not exact matches

Scott Segal, the head of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, will argue the CPP is expensive and illegal because it requires some utilities to reduce emissions «beyond the fence line» or far away from the power plants themselves.

PNM wants proposals that will help its portion of the grid provide the necessary reliability requirements and minimum operating resources that will meet North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECCreliability requirements and minimum operating resources that will meet North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECCReliability Corporation (NERC) and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) criteria.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents power companies, offered a similar warning:

«If you were too comprehensively regulate greenhouse gases under the existing Clean Air Act, that would impose a substantial cost and insufficient flexibility for the regulated community,» said Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which lobbies on behalf of power companies like Southern Co. and Duke Energy Corp..

Yet, industry trade groups such as the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, the National Mining Association, and the National Association of Manufacturers have already issued statements forecasting job losses and an impending rise in energy prices (EPA estimates them to be $ 3 to $ 4 a month after 2015).

«According to the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, the price tag is as much as $ 100 billion.»

-- Scott Segal is the head of Bracewell's Policy Resolution Group in the practice's Washington, D.C., office, and directs the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council.

The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council doesn't voluntarily disclose its other members.

The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a lobbying group that represents energy companies with major investments in coal - fired power plants, has prepared an analysis that cites a study estimating that a phase - out of coal plants could cost consumers $ 13 billion to $ 17 billion a year between 2018 and 2033.

Holmstead's client list on climate issues includes Southern Company, Duke Energy, Progress Energy and the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council on climate matters.

In addition, Southern is represented by the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a coal industry front group run out of Bracewell's office in Washington, DC.

Scott Segal, the director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents power companies, said the details he had heard about the rules suggested that the administration would drive investment away from a plentiful source of power.