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New modeling uses the latest renewable energy and battery cost data to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of achieving 80 percent clean (carbon-free) electricity in the United States by 2030. The report finds achieving an 80 percent clean electricity grid by 2030 is technologically feasible, would not raise customer costs or compromise reliability, and would deliver major benefits including $1.5 trillion in clean energy capital investments and $100 billion in transmission capital investments, while avoiding over $1.7 trillion in health and environmental costs, including 93,000 avoided premature deaths. Modeling data is available here.…
View Full ResourceThe New York Independent System Operator (“NYISO”) manages New York’s electric grid and competitive wholesale electric marketplace. The NYISO serves 19.8 million New Yorkers. In addition to cutting consumer costs by $7.8 billion over its history through improved grid efficiencies, NYISO utilizes a diverse energy mix to provide New York with reliable power.
NYISO’s Energy Market secures electricity supply to meet consumer demand in real-time and in the near-term (sometimes referred to as the forward or day-ahead market). Power is bought and sold in the energy market much like a stock exchange – electric generators offer into the market at …
View Full ResourceTo meet the evolving demands of the 21st century, the U.S. power grid is undergoing transformational changes that defy its traditional design of large-scale generation remotely located far from consumers, centralized control structures with minimal feedback, limited energy storage, and passive loads. Over the last decade, the U.S. electric generation mix has changed dramatically, with increased generation from highly-flexible natural gas, rapid deployment and penetration of variable renewable resources, and decreased generation from traditional baseload resources. Other changes that are beginning now and expected to accelerate in the near term include increased deployment of energy storage technologies and greater use …
View Full ResourceIn April 2019, WPTO launched the HydroWIRES Initiative1 to understand, enable, and improve hydropower and pumped storage hydropower’s (PSH’s) contributions to reliability, resilience, and integration in the rapidly evolving U.S. electricity system. The unique characteristics of hydropower, including PSH, make it well suited to providing a range of storage, generation flexibility, and other grid services to support the cost-effective integration of variable renewable resources.
The U.S. electricity system is rapidly evolving, bringing both opportunities and challenges for the hydropower sector. While increasing deployment of variable renewables such as wind and solar have enabled low-cost, clean energy in many U.S. regions, …
View Full ResourceThe PJM Interconnection electric grid system (PJM) is America’s largest electric grid operator and runs the nation’s biggest competitive wholesale power market— serving more than 65 million Americans in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
More than 20 years ago, competitive wholesale electricity markets were established in many parts of the U.S. to help reduce power generation costs, increase competition and choice, open the door to innovation, and enhance efficiency and operations. This new competitive era replaced an inflexible, vertically integrated monopoly utility model that was cost prohibitive and failed to incentivize new technology. As competitive power suppliers, EPSA …
View Full ResourceThis white paper, prepared by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Staff (“Staff”) and consultants at The Brattle Group (“Brattle”), presents for public discussion a new resource adequacy concept centered on achievement of state clean energy requirements and locational reliability needs through a single integrated market, paving the way for a smooth, cost-effective transition to the clean energy grid of the future. …
View Full ResourceAmerica runs on electricity. As the nation recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic while modernizing its electric power grid, leaders have an opportunity to foster bipartisan progress on all fronts: our economy, our environment, and our energy future. Competition in wholesale power markets delivers tremendous benefits: it reduces electricity costs, improves reliability, puts consumers first, and enhances access for cleaner energy and new technologies.
America’s economic strength and future success demand that we keep essential services running, minimize the cost burden on families and businesses, and create a strong foundation built on competition and innovation to bring least-cost energy solutions
to …
Over the last 25 years, four major FERC orders, No. 888, 2000, 890 and 1000, each made incremental progress building regional transmission infrastructure, moving the industry away from its past balkanized structure with relatively weak connections between utility systems towards a more reliable and efficient system allowing for more regional exchange of power. As we look to the future, much more regional and inter-regional power exchange will be needed for national energy security, reliability, resilience, cost-effectiveness, and economic competitiveness. A decade after FERC Order No. 1000’s issuance, the nation faces new challenges and it is clear that neither the current …
View Full ResourceAchieving decarbonization goals requires effective, efficient solutions that do not unduly burden consumers or impede the reliability of our power grid – while allowing for continued competition and innovation.
To inform these solutions, EPSA retained Energy & Environmental Economics (E3) to perform an independent and unbiased analysis of regional market-based pathways to reliably and cost effectively achieve decarbonization goals in the PJM Interconnection (PJM) footprint, which serves 65 million electricity customers in 13 states and the District of Columbia.…
View Full ResourceConversations around the future of the southeastern electricity sector are lighting up across the region, from stakeholder discussions on the North Carolina Energy Regulatory Process to RTO study bills and utility negotiations around a Southeast Energy Exchange Market. Stakeholders may come to the table with different perspectives and positions, but they share the common goals of reliability, affordability, and adaptability given new technologies, external threats, and shifting customer demands. Competition comes up a great deal in these conversations; too often the concept sends stakeholders into two distinct camps. And yet, competition is not a yes or
no question. Therefore, the …