How Southwest Power Pool Sets Renewable Records Daily By Tyler StoffApril 8, 2021 By: 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… Read more
A Deep Dive on Renewable Energy Policy at ACORE’s First-Ever Virtual Policy Forum By Maheen Ahmad and Daniel WolfMarch 25, 2021 With a new administration focused as never before on climate, a changing Congress and the ongoing pandemic, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) hosted its Policy Forum on March 10-11, for the first time in a virtual environment. Attended by nearly 500 industry participants, the event convened leaders from across government and the… Read more
Accelerating Renewable Energy with the Whole-of-Government By Tyler StoffFebruary 11, 2021 By: 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… Read more
Accelerating Renewable Energy with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission By Tyler StoffJanuary 27, 2021 By: 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… Read more
Reflections on a Decade of Nonprofit Education on Wind and Solar Energy: An Interview with Doug Fredrickson and Ed Zaelke By Kevin O'RourkeDecember 2, 2020 By: Kevin O’Rourke December 2, 2020 Doug Fredrickson is the former Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Blattner Energy and Ed Zaelke is a Partner and the Head of Energy Project Finance at McDermott Will & Emery. Both Doug and Ed served as board members of the Wind Energy Foundation (WEF), which became the Wind… Read more
ACORE Hosts its First-Ever Virtual Grid Forum By Maheen Ahmad and Adam CareyNovember 25, 2020 By: Maheen Ahmad and Adam Carey November 25, 2020 ACORE’s annual Grid Forum convenes renewable energy industry executives and thought leaders to explore the business opportunities, policy and regulatory issues, and technology challenges associated with integrating increasingly high penetrations of renewable electricity on the grid. This year, on November 17-18, ACORE hosted its first-ever virtual Grid Forum with the theme “maximizing renewables integration through grid modernization.” Hundreds of attendees… Read more
