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Texas Wind Power: Steady Prices Amidst Fluctuations

This stability in the face of variable wind conditions highlights the resilience and adaptability of Texas's energy infrastructure and market dynamics.

Wind Power and Price Stability

Texas is a national leader in wind power, boasting a substantial share of the U.S. wind energy capacity. However, wind energy generation can be highly variable, with periods of low wind resulting in reduced output from wind farms. Typically, such variability could lead to increased electricity prices, particularly if...

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ISO New England Issues RFP to Integrate Maine Wind Power

ISO New England, the regional grid operator, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) aimed at enhancing the region’s transmission infrastructure to support the anticipated influx of wind energy from northern Maine. The new initiative, announced on March 31, 2025, seeks to address long-term...


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FERC Rejects PJM Transmission Planning Change

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected a proposal from PJM Interconnection, one of the United States' largest regional transmission organizations, to alter its transmission planning protocol. The decision represents a significant victory for state regulators who had expressed...

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SUBSTATION AUTOMATION AND INTEGRATION PROGRAMS

Newton-Evans Research Company, Inc. of Ellicott City, MD is preparing to publish market research findings from Volume 1 of a four-volume study, “The World Market for Substation Automation and Integration Programs in Electric Utilities: 2017-2020.” Volume 1 of this Substation Automation and Integration study is based on a 22 question survey of 65 electric utilities that provide electricity to a combined total of 23 million end users in the U.S. and Canada. Our article on the digital substation explores how fiber optic cables and IEC 61850 are transforming traditional substation designs.

The survey sample consists of U.S. investor owned and public power utilities as well as utility cooperatives. The survey also included a mix of Canada’s provincial and municipal utilities. In the full report, responses to each survey question are broken out by type and size of utility.

Substation Automation Programs

Participants were asked, “Please rank the difficulty from 1...

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Storm-Hardened Switchgear

How to protect electrical equipment from Mother Nature BY ROBERT A. MURPHY, Trayer Engineering Corporation The U.S. National Weather Service called Hurricane Sandy the most destructive storm of 2012’s unusually active Atlantic hurricane season. Sandy delivered unprecedented damage across a wide...
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Ethernet Cable Selection for Utilities

Electric utilities are constantly searching for the most efficient, reliable and cost-effective methods to deliver electricity to customers. A vision for accomplishing this is the migration of the electrical grid from a reliable, but inflexible system to the Smart Grid, which promises adaptability...