A recent article by my partners Marc Wood and Jennifer Martin explores the transmission challenges faced by wind and other intermittent energy resources and then explains how transmission obstacles can be reduced by the effective use of dynamic scheduling, physical storage and exchange (shaping), or some combination of the two. The article urges FERC to initiate
July 2008
Ohio’s New RPS Yields Duke Renewables RFP
By William H. Holmes on
Spurred by Ohio’s new renewable energy portfolio standard, Duke Energy Ohio is requesting proposals for renewable energy resources that would begin delivering energy in 2009-2012. Duke is interested both in PPAs and asset acquisitions, and the resources must be able to deliver energy to the MISO grid. Bids are due by August 8, 2008.
In Ohio, "renewable energy…