Energy Update
The U.S. solar industry faced unprecedented price increases and project delays in 2021 due to supply chain and trade issues that persist today. The turmoil posed a threat to President Joe Biden's decarbonization goals, according to a new report.
With MISO and SPP compliance plans for FERC Order 2222 due in April, the attention shifts to collecting patterns on key requirements for aggregated distributed resources. Order 2222 allows broad aggregations both geographically and technically. But as FERC and other DER providers observe, not all ISOs have complied with the broad aggregation requirement.
“Go West, young man!” This phrase referring to the pioneering days of this country implied that the West was a land of opportunity. In the Midwest, the western part of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory is rich with renewable energy resources, but interconnecting new renewable generation to the grid there has been stymied by a lack of transmission capacity.
The Florida Legislature has passed changes to the state's net metering policy that has solar advocates warning of "nightmare" impacts to rooftop solar customers.
U.S. solar module manufacturers are asking for President Biden to back legislation that would bolster the domestic supply chain, calling the current moment "an inflection point" for the industry.
In early March, electric grid operators Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) released the results of their 18-month study focused on improving reliability and resolving targeted transmission constraints along their shared boundaries or “seams.” The project, also known as the Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue (JTIQ) study, focused on developing transmission where there is congestion between the two regional transmission operator (RTO) territories to
A record-breaking $105 billion was invested into U.S. clean energy assets in 2021, according to market analysis.
Renewable energy and electric vehicles received the bulk of the overall clean energy investing capital, which increased 11% year-over-year in BloombergNEF's 10th annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook.
The International Energy Agency unveiled a 10-point plan which it believes could wean the European Union off Russian gas imports by more than a third by this time next year.
The plan includes measures such as bringing in gas from other countries and boosting national reserves, as well as accelerating the rollout of renewables and increasing energy efficiency in buildings, industry, and among consumers.
Equinor and bp said they plan to invest up to $250 million to build an offshore wind staging and assembly hub at a Brooklyn, New York, port. The facility is expected to meet the needs of the companies' ongoing projects as well as the region's burgeoning offshore wind industry.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would find ISO-NE’s multiple market models troubling in the Order 2222 compliance filing. Even though the New England ISO has seven market participation models for aggregating DERs fairly, FERC should issue a deficiency letter because none of those models work due to the high cost of metering implementation.
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