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Dive Brief: The WEIS has been in the works for more than a year, and SPP says many of the participants are now evaluating full membership in the SPP regional transmission organization (RTO). A Brattle study last year concluded adding members could produce $49 million in annual savings for consumers and SPP. Utilities joining the WEIS say the new service will help accelerate their decarbonization goals. There are concerns from some clean energy advocates, however, that SPP's new market creates a transmission seam across Colorado and may not be as efficient as a single RTO serving the state...

Published: 28 Jan 2021, 13:29 By: A FlexGen 10MW battery storage project near Houston, Texas. Image: FlexGen. While it might be more than 200 times smaller than the world’s biggest battery energy storage system so far, a 1MW / 5.1MWh project awarded to technology provider FlexGen is expected to be the biggest of its kind in the US state of Kansas. The 300MW / 1,200MWh Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California went into operation just before the end of last year and was officially announced as up and running at the beginning of this one. Moss Landing’s output serves ...

Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, has a simple explanation for why U.S. transmission grid policy has stalled the growth of wind and solar power.  “If you talk to a developer, they will say [that] the grid operators and transmission owners are woefully slow and unpredictable in terms of what it costs to connect, and the process is extremely frustrating,” he said in a Monday interview.   “If you talk to the grid operators, they’ll say, 'Renewables developers keep throwing in different projects, [so] I have to study each of them — and when I give them an answer, they drop...

At least 95% of nebraska still reeling from last week's storms. vice president mike pence surveyed the damage across the state yesterday. he said he's going to make sure all federal resources are made available to the state. >> this is five days under water and isolated for some of these communities. flood records have been shattered in 17 places in num r nebras nebraska. check out lincoln. floods swallowing an entire power pool. "wall street journal" estimates farmers are losing $1 million a day in the flooding. they're already reeling from the trade war with china. this has been really tough...