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Minimum Offer Price Rule or MOPR topic ruled stakeholder discussions for a while at PJM Interconnection. This saga started in 2016 with Calpine complaining at FERC about “price suppression” due to state subsidies for renewable energy in the PJM’s capacity market auction. Since a Republican was elected to the White House in November 2016, the…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip More than half of the battery storage capacity added in the U.S. in the next three years will be paired with a solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant, bucking the historical trend of majority standalone sites. Data from the Energy Information Administration estimates that 9.4 of 14.5 GW, or 63%, of battery storage capacity…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip Zelim, a Scottish startup, and naval architect Chartwell Marine have partnered to develop the world’s first unmanned rescue vessel for the offshore wind industry. ‘Survivor 1’ is an 11-meter long, 9-ton lifeboat equipped with a conveyor belt for water rescues. The vessel is deployed from a fixed offshore structure via a 25-meter free…

Domestic production of renewable energy (i.e., biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) reached an all-time high in the first six months of this year, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of new data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).   The latest issue of EIA’s “Monthly Energy Review” report (with data through June 30, 2021) reveals…

Jersey Central Power and Light is positioning itself as the conduit between offshore wind energy production and electricity customers. The utility, owned by FirstEnergy, has submitted a proposal with New Jersey state regulators and the system operator PJM Interconnection. The Jersey Central plan outlines a comprehensive transmission system investment program to connect enough offshore wind-generated…

Contributed by Dr. Mohsen Khorasany, TYMLEZ Influenced by the increasing penetration of “behind-the-meter” distributed energy resources (DER), power systems are experiencing a paradigm shift from a centralized structure to a decentralized one. The high penetration level of DER raises technical, commercial, and regulatory challenges since the grid infrastructure is designed to deliver large-scale centralized generation…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip An energy market proposed by Southern utilities would produce the lowest cost savings and emission reductions of available options, and would imperil decarbonization goals, according to a new report. The study — conducted by Vibrant Clean Energy on behalf of the American Council on Renewable Energy — compared the proposed Southeast Energy Exchange…

Stantec announces it has been selected by Missouri River Energy Services (MRES) to conduct a feasibility study for the 1,800-MW Gregory County Pumped Storage Project located on Lake Francis Case on the Missouri River, near Lucas, S.D. The proposed project will provide increased energy resiliency and grid reliability, while also addressing intermittent power generated by…

Offshore wind cabling manufacturer JDR Cable Systems has announced that it will receive funding from the UK government’s Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Support scheme. Together with private investment from the company, a total of £130 million ($178 million) will be invested in facilities that will develop and build components for next-generation wind turbines. The funds…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip Ford Motor Company announced plans on Tuesday for a massive electric vehicle manufacturing campus in Tennessee, as well as two additional battery facilities in Kentucky, in what the company called the largest investment in the U.S. electric vehicle market at one time by an automaker. A $5.6 billion mega campus in Stanton, Tennessee…