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Golden West Packaging Acquires Four US Packaging Firms

Jun 22, 2017

Golden West Packaging has acquired four independent Northern California packaging firms and their co-owned sheet feeder plant for an undisclosed sum. The company acquired Heritage Solutions, Capital Corrugated, PackageOne, Packaging ...

Tags: Golden West Packaging, Packaging

MISO's Expected Cost to Comply with US CPP Varies Widely by Strategy

Dec 18, 2015

The 20-year cost of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's compliance with the US Clean Power Plan could be as little as $5.8 billion to as much as $104 billion in today's dollars, depending on which strategies are pursued, ...

Tags: Clean Power, natural gas

New York Locational Marginal Power Prices in November Lowest Since 1999

Dec 15, 2015

Locational marginal prices for November in New York were the lowest since the New York Independent System Operator began managing the transmission grid in 1999, Rana Mukerji, senior vice president of market structures, said Wednesday during ...

Tags: natural gas, Power Prices

Wind Power Sets New Record for Energy Share in Ercot in November

Dec 15, 2015

Wind generation in November blew through a 31-month-old record share of total energy in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a new report shows, and an expert said it contributed to ERCOT's low on-peak power prices that month. Wind ...

Tags: Wind generation, coal-fired generation, natural gas-fired generation

Coal Generation Falls More Than Most US Utilities Had Forecast: Retac Survey

Dec 2, 2015

Utilities are burning less coal than they previously expected, a survey the US Surface Transportation Board conducted shows. During a Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington, committee member John Carr, ...

Tags: natural gas, Coal Generation

ERCOT to Have Tighter Power Supply in Summer 2016: Report

Dec 2, 2015

An Electric Reliability Council of Texas report released Tuesday shows the independent system operator expects the supply of electricity to be tighter in summer 2016 than it did in the May version of the report. ERCOT's Capacity, Demand ...

Tags: ERCOT, wind power, solar, CDR

Capp Spot Market Frozen, But Winter Could Be 'shot in The Arm' at Year-End

Nov 25, 2015

US Central Appalachian coal producers and brokers are still hoping some kind of thermal spot market will develop with winter approaching, but many in the industry said this week they aren't holding out much hope. Market players continued ...

Tags: CAPP coal, MISO coal, fossil fuel

NV Energy Set to Join Western Eim on December 1

Nov 25, 2015

In a major development for Western energy markets, NV Energy, Nevada's largest utility, will begin participating in the region's energy imbalance market on December 1. The move, announced late Friday, follows the Federal Energy Regulatory ...

Tags: energy markets, NV Energy

Entergy to Shut 849 MW Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant as Soon as 2017

Nov 4, 2015

The 849 MW FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, New York, will be shut permanently by late 2016 or early 2017, due to "the continued deteriorating economics of the facility," Entergy said Monday in a statement. The unit is licensed to ...

Tags: Nuclear Power, natural gas prices, power plants

Duke Energy Indiana Defers Coal Deliveries as Seeks to Cut Stockpiles

Nov 4, 2015

Duke Energy Indiana has deferred into 2016 some coal contracted for delivery this year as it seeks to cut down on a stockpile that at one point approached 5 million st or 80 days of supply, a company official said in a filing to the state's ...

Tags: Duke Energy, coal, fuel

EPRI Is Working to Develop an Open Platform That Would Integrate Pev with Smart Grid

Aug 6, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is working to develop an open platform that would integrate plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) with smart grid technologies. EPRI is carrying out the project in partnership with eight automakers ...

Tags: Plug-in Vehicles, Electric Vehicles

US Coal Stockpiles Essentially Held Steady in The Week

Jun 24, 2014

US coal stockpiles essentially held steady at 141 million st in the week that ended Thursday, but are likely to begin declining in the coming weeks as coal burn increases with summer demand, according to Bentek Energy. Bentek, a unit of ...

Tags: coal stockpiles, coal consumption

DTE Electric to Retire a Third of Its Coal-Fired Generation

Jun 23, 2014

DTE Electric, Michigan's largest power utility with more than 2.1 million customers, plans to retire a third of its coal-fired generation, more than 2,000 MW, by 2025, and rely more on natural gas and renewables, mostly wind, the company ...

Tags: natural gas, renewables

Solar Development Is Influenced by a Number of Policies,Processes and Incentives

Apr 11, 2014

Solar development in California is influenced by a number of policies, processes and incentives. The growth of the solar industry proceeds according to federal priorities, state-level goals for electricity generation, market conditions and ...

Tags: CEC, CEC Certification, certification

How Wind Power Technology Can Assist The Power Grid by Controlling The Active Power

Feb 8, 2014

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with partners from the Electric Power Research Institute and the University of Colorado have completed a comprehensive study to understand how wind power technology ...

Tags: NREL, NWTC, PFC, wind turbines

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