How a Patriots Super Bowl affects the region’s power grid
The New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl, set to take on the Atlanta Falcons Sunday night in …
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US Department of Energy releases Quadrennial Energy Review 1.2
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released the second installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review (QER 1.2), examining an …
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Turbines are spinning at the nation’s first offshore wind facility
ISO-NE continues efforts to help integrate more offshore and onshore wind energy in New England On December 12, 2016, Deepwater Wind …
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Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island select projects to move forward under Clean Energy RFP
On October 24, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island released their evaluation of the projects submitted in response to the Clean …
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New ISO-NE webpage highlights the growing impact of solar power across the six states
Heat maps and load profiles illustrate solar power’s growing effects on the regional power system and grid operations ISO New England …
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Summer 2016 recap: Uneventful, until August
Summer 2016 was fairly uneventful until August arrived with its long stretches of hot, humid weather that pushed up demand …
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FERC approves change to five-minute settlement of real-time markets
Aligning the financial settlement interval with the real-time pricing interval will bolster incentives for resources to respond to ISO dispatch …
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New resource retirement rules in effect for region’s capacity market
July 28 update to article originally posted April 14: Information added below on the materiality threshold accepted by the Federal …
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FERC OKs enhanced system-wide and zonal demand curves for Forward Capacity Auction
New sloping curves more effectively balance reliability and economics in establishing capacity commitments On June 28, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory …
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ISO-NE submits comments to US Department of Energy on 2016 Quadrennial Energy Review
ISO highlights importance of efficient wholesale markets; notes that additional energy infrastructure is needed to maintain reliability and meet regional …
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