Sentences with phrase «wholesale power generation»

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

• Calpine Corp (NYSE: CPN), a Houston, Texas - based wholesale power generation company, is exploring a sale, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Not exact matches

Energy Future Holdings Corp. manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries consisting of TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer, Luminant, a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and construction, and Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.

Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in the overall fuel mix.

Generation dispatch decisions are made by an individual utility operating multiple plants in its service area or by a Regional Transmission Organization as part of a centralized wholesale power market.

Southern Illinois Power Cooperative is a generation and transmission cooperative providing wholesale electric power to seven member distribution cooperatives and two wholesale customers in IlliPower Cooperative is a generation and transmission cooperative providing wholesale electric power to seven member distribution cooperatives and two wholesale customers in Illipower to seven member distribution cooperatives and two wholesale customers in Illinois.

Examples of these entities include, but are not limited to, independent power producers, power marketers and aggregators (both wholesale and retail), merchant transmission service providers, self - generation entities, and cogeneration firms with Qualifying Facility Status.

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, which was known as the Alabama Electric Cooperative until January 2008, «is a generation and transmission cooperative that provides the wholesale power needs of 20 distribution members — 16 electric cooperatives and four municipal electric systems — in Alabama and northwest Florida.»

The generation utilities that sell into wholesale electricity markets (also under pressure from falling power prices; thanks to natural gas and renewables, wholesale power prices are down 70 percent from 2007) have reacted by cutting costs and merging.

In IER's report on the levelized cost of electricity, we estimate these «imposed costs» of wind power to be about $ 26 per megawatt - hour — rivaling the average wholesale cost of electricity — when wind displaces natural gas generation.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in the court opinion wrote, «Maryland's regulatory program to encourage development of new in - state energy generation is preempted by the Federal Power Act, which vests in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive jurisdiction over interstate wholesale electricity rates.»

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association is a wholesale electric power supplier owned by the 44 electric cooperatives that it serves.

«Baseload power from coal - fired and nuclear generation is exiting wholesale power markets, and no organized market is immune.

These wholesale markets are rigged in favor of wind and solar and they are forcing baseload power generation, specifically, nuclear and coal - fired plants, to close.

New wind and solar is now 20 % cheaper than existing coal - fired generation's average wholesale power price, and 65 % of India's coal power generation is being sold at higher rates than new renewable energy bids in competitive power auctions.

To be sure, the costs of solar will need to continue downwards as solar power deployment extends across the country and contributes an increasing percentage of US electricity generation and competes at the wholesale electricity rate.

«The reimbursement rate should be changed from the retail rate to the rate the utility pays for wholesale solar generation from utility - scale projects connected to its distribution system,» argued Tucson Electric Power Energy Supply Senior Director Carmine Tilghman recently.

It's pricing structure idiotically treated wholesale transactions in electricity by state public utilities, whose power generation base is overwhelmingly hydro - based, as if their power source was entirely COAL based, and punished them accordingly.

Partial requirements consumer: A wholesale consumer with generating resources insufficient to carry all its load and whose energy seller is a long - term firm power source supplemental to the consumer's own generation or energy received from others.

These wholesale markets are rigged in favor of wind and solar and they are forcing baseload power generation,

Sophie Vorrath wrote an article for RenewEconomy giving the real reason for the wholesale electricity price spike: the sudden failure of one of the generation units at Victoria's Loy Yang B power station.

Founded in 1952, Tristate Generation and Transmission Association is a wholesale electric power supplier owned by the 44 electrical cooperatives that it serves in a 200,000 square mile area across Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Nebraska.