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FERC should act on these 3 issues in 2022

Renewable Energy World

First, FERC needs to tackle the cost allocation for interregional transmission because that is the lesson learned from both MISO and SPP queue reform that PJM is missing in its current proposal. But distribution utilities are erecting barriers under the safety and reliability excuse. Connect is free for qualified utilities!

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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

More than 130,000 miles of oil and gas transmission pipelines are planned globally, representing roughly $1 trillion in capital expenditures, according to a recent report from Global Energy Monitor. In the United States that means coordinating more than 9,200 electricity generating stations and more than 600,000 miles of transmission lines.

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DISTRIBUTECH International announces Host Utility, partnerships to support navigation of the energy transition

Renewable Energy World

DISTRIBUTECH International, the leading annual transmission and distribution event, is pleased to announce its Host Utility Oncor, as well as partnerships with the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), Forth, Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) and Vehicle-Grid Integration Council (VGIC), for its 2022 event taking place Jan.

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Urging clean energy and justice for tribal nations

GreenBiz

Solar panels can be widely distributed, scaled to need, locally controlled and built and maintained by modestly capitalized companies with roots in neighborhoods, communities and tribes. Bureau of Reclamation donated its ownership of 500 megawatts of NGS transmission capacity to the Navajo Nation to help get tribal solar resources to market.

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FERC’s data request to NYISO on Order 2222 offers clues for MISO’s compliance filing

Renewable Energy World

Distributed solar stakeholders must take comfort in FERC’s data requests sent to NYISO and CAISO. Most of the questions focused on how distributed solar would operate within the ISO market construct through an aggregator and how the ISO would coordinate with the distribution utility to facilitate solar and storage dispatch.

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Energy justice and local solar go hand-in-hand

Renewable Energy World

Local energy resources have the potential to equitably distribute the benefits of clean energy in a way that provides jobs, resilience and savings to communities left out of our century-old electricity grid. By Odette Mucha, Vote Solar and Luis Nasvytis Torres, Earthjustice. electric grid. The growth of these resources fuels the savings.

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MISO surprises with FERC Order 2222 implementation date

Renewable Energy World

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) surprised the entire stakeholder community with a 2030 proposed implementation date for complying with FERC’s Order 2222 , which opened wholesale energy markets to distributed energy resources. And MISO says it needs time to set up this communications system with the utilities.

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