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Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Clogged power grid is blocking renewables. Here’s a fix Source: By Jeffrey Tomich, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2021 The Smoky Hills Wind Farm in Kansas is pictured. Drenaline/Wikimedia Commons Twice as much renewable generation could be added in a pair of wind-rich states during the next few years with modest investments in technology that boosts efficiency on the power grid, according to a new study. The study, released yesterday by the Watt Coalition, a group of six transmission technology providers, found tha...

The U.S. could double its capacity for new wind and solar power, save billions of dollars and cut millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions from its generation fleets if federal incentives can be aligned to deploy a suite of technologies to unlock the full capacity of transmission grids.   So says a new report from The Brattle Group, modeling the benefits of a set of "grid-enhancing technologies" across the wind-power-rich grids of Kansas and Oklahoma. According to its analysis, spending about $90 million to implement these technologies could yield a payback in less than a year, with ...

Email In Kansas and Oklahoma, over 5,000MW of wind and solar could be deployed by 2025 using the tech. Image: Getty. Technologies to help tackle grid congestion could double the volume of solar and wind deployed by 2025, according to a new study. The study – undertaken by the Brattle Group on behalf of the WATT Coalition – identifies how three Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) could boost the technologies, using the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) grid as an illustrative case study. It found that renewables curtailments in Kansas and Oklahoma are likely caused by transmiss...

Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid Winterizing power plants and pipelines will be key, whether through regulation or market incentives. Adding more interregional transmission could also help — if Texas is willing. 9 February 22, 2021 After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. But even as the freezing temperatures that caused the crisis have waned, the political stances over who should be blamed ha...

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