Sentences with phrase «of regional grid operators»

This is why planning for future electricity needs is critical, and this is the responsibility of regional grid operators — one they take quite seriously.

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In comments to EPA, a number of utilities and regional grid operators have expressed concern about the plan's forecasts for renewables, fuel switching and energy efficiency gains.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

The current system only requires electric providers to demonstrate to MISO, the federally - sanctioned regional grid operator in which most of Michigan is located, that providers have enough capacity to serve customer needs in the upcoming year.

In their reply comments, five of the six regional U.S. grid operators challenged the central premise of PJM's initial resilience comments, filed in March, which argued FERC should order the operators to make changes to their market tariffs to reflect resilience attributes.

Five of the six regional grid operators and companies outside the coal and nuclear sector argued FERC should not issue a «universal resilience standard» or direct changes to plant compensation, instead allowing grid operators to identify and address resilience challenges independently with FERC guidance.

In the January ruling, FERC ordered PJM and the rest of the country's independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to respond to a list of 14 questions about how to define and measure grid resilience, with the goal of determining what, if any, additional steps might be needed outside of existing market rules to prevent or recover from disasters.

Energy companies and regional grid operators filed comments in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's grid resilience docket on Wednesday, dividing over the role of the federal agency in securing the nation's power infrastructure.

«This issue is far too critical to the security of the nation's electric system to delegate it to organizations that have an institutional interest and are subject to the push and pull of their stakeholders,» FirstEnergy wrote, referring to regional grid operators.

The regional grid operator's plan focuses on fuel supply disruptions and ignores potential benefits of renewables.

California's grid operator has led the creation of real - time regional energy market, which now includes six additional grid operators in parts of eight states.

-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

FERC asked regional grid operators to advise whether there should be additional action to bolster the resilience of the bulk power system.

This nascent form of electric carcommerce will be announced on Friday by the University of Delaware, the regional grid operator and an electric company.

The costs of the necessay backup for a project of this magnitude are borne by the grid operators, the regional utilities, who have to buy and operate the additional «peaker» capacity since their utility charters include maintaining system stability.

An extended stretch of cold weather across the northern regions of the United States has forced generators to turn to coal and fuel oil, but regional grid operators say they have seen no difficulties in maintaining power supply.

FERC instead directed the regional transmission organisations and independent system operators - the bodies that operate the USA's power grid - to assess the resilience of the electricity grid and to recommend additional actions to mitigate any identified issues.