How Southwest Power Pool Sets Renewable Records Daily BlogBy Tyler StoffApril 8, 2021By: Tyler Stoff April 8, 2021 On March 9, 2021, the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) – a wholesale power market that manages a real-time energy market in 14 states across the Central U.S. – set a new record for renewable penetration, with 80.3% of its electricity coming from renewables. Five days later, SPP broke that…
Accelerating Renewable Energy with the Whole-of-Government BlogBy Tyler StoffFebruary 11, 2021By: Tyler Stoff February 11, 2021 The new Biden administration can use its executive authority to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in a variety of ways. Part one of this series explored how the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) can leverage its authority to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy. This blog…
Accelerating Renewable Energy with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission BlogBy Tyler StoffJanuary 27, 2021By: Tyler Stoff January 27, 2021 An examination of the way the new Biden administration can use its executive authority to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy might well begin with a look at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Among several important functions, FERC regulates the nation’s wholesale power markets. President Biden recently appointed…
Connecting the Dots: Smart Climate Policy Coalescing Around Key Priorities BlogBy Tyler StoffOctober 27, 2020By: Tyler Stoff October 27, 2020 In January 2020, ACORE released Advancing America’s Climate Leadership: Policy Options That Most Effectively Put Renewable Energy to Work, a report that examined notable climate policy approaches for their impact on renewable energy growth and investment, including a federal high-penetration renewable or clean energy standard, a technology-neutral tax credit,…
Not Your Parents’ Carbon Price: Climate-Aware Wholesale Energy Markets Can Be An Effective, Consensus Part Of the Climate Solution BlogBy Tyler StoffOctober 7, 2020By: Tyler Stoff October 7, 2020 Nearly 70% of the nation’s electricity moves through organized wholesale energy markets, where electricity is bought and sold among generators, utilities and traders before reaching end-use customers. These markets are operated by Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), and regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
Multi-Resource “Hybrid” Power Plants are the Present and Future of Energy Generation BlogBy Tyler StoffAugust 19, 2020By: Tyler Stoff August 19, 2020 Single-resource power plants, like a field of solar panels or a hillside of wind turbines, are foundational to the modern renewable energy economy. They work well under the conditions of today’s grid. As renewable penetration increases, more complex projects can offer a new and expanded array of services, further…
Examining Priorities for Transmission and Renewable Integration BlogBy Tyler StoffApril 10, 2020April 10, 2020 By: Tyler Stoff This post follows Part 1, Assessing the Impact of FERC’s MOPR and BSM Decisions on Wholesale Markets, which was released earlier this month. In early March, ACORE members joined an Executive Meeting in Washington, D.C. ahead of the 2020 ACORE Policy Forum to assess the effects of emerging power and integration issues on renewable growth. The…
Assessing the Impact of FERC’s MOPR and BSM Decisions on Wholesale Markets BlogBy Tyler StoffApril 2, 2020April 2, 2020 By: Tyler Stoff In early March, ACORE members joined an Executive Meeting in Washington, D.C. ahead of the 2020 ACORE Policy Forum to assess the effects of emerging power market and integration issues on renewable growth. Discussion included an analysis of FERC’s recent and controversial expansion of the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in PJM and Buyer-Side Mitigation…
ACORE Examines Policy Options That Most Effectively Put Renewable Energy to Work BlogBy Tyler StoffJanuary 14, 2020January 14, 2020 By Tyler Stoff With growing emphasis on climate policy heading into the 2020 election season, ACORE has released a white paper assessing notable climate policy approaches for their impact on renewable energy growth and investment, including a federal high-penetration renewable energy standard or clean energy standard, a technology-neutral tax credit, and carbon…
Enacting a Federal Renewable Energy Standard: ACORE and Wilson Sonsini Dive Deep BlogBy Tyler StoffOctober 16, 2019October 16, 2019 Tyler Stoff In advance of the 2019 Renewable Energy Grid Forum in San Francisco, ACORE and ACORE member firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are releasing a white paper entitled Enacting a Federal High-Penetration Renewable Energy Standard: Building on Proposals to Date and Addressing Important Additional Considerations. Today’s launch event highlights the…
