Sentences with phrase «regional system operator»

The idea behind the CAISO energy imbalance market — which runs parallel to CAISO but does not constitute a full - fledged regional system operator — is to reduce the number of balancing authorities in the region and make the resources of various parties available to each other with fewer jurisdictional seams.

Meanwhile, a rival western regional system operator could undercut efforts to expand CAISO.

Not exact matches

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 January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

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.

«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.

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

The grid operator will seek to understand how a regional system will affect the state's transition to 50 % renewables by 2030

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has reported that energy storage can offer up to 13 different services to stakeholders, including customers, utilities, independent system operators and regional transmission organizations.

SAN FRANCISCO (January 8, 2018)-- Motivate International, the operator of the Bay Area's regional bike share system, announced today it will add e-Bikes to its fleet, beginning with 250 e-Bikes in San Francisco this April.

Or there could be two regional transmission operators: a CAISO - oriented system including much of the Pacific Northwest, and a Mountain West system encompassing much of the Rocky Mountain West.

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.

Grid operators — known as independent system operators (ISOs) or regional transmission organizations — hold auctions to procure future energy resources at the wholesale level.

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.

Being able to nimbly control water heaters will allow Great River Energy to offer sophisticated energy services to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, the regional grid operator.

We also handle complicated business, regulatory, and operational issues inherent in sales, spin - offs, and transfers of control to regional transmission operators of existing transmission facilities and systems.

Meanwhile, many smaller operators are challenged by a lack of man power, capital, or the systems to compete with the larger regional companies and REITs.