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| Electricity MarketsWhy the Grid Is Leaning Harder on Hydro’s Spinning Mass
New NERC and FERC actions are drawing attention to a service hydropower already provides for free: the physical inertia…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Think Like a Grid Operator – What’s Changing and How Is Hydro Affected?
Grid operators are modernizing their planning criteria to maintain reliability as the mix of generation changes from predominately dispatchable…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Why the RTO Stakeholder Process Matters for Hydropower Owners and Operators
Understanding the Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) process is important for hydropower owners and operators selling power. By taking part…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Removing Roadblocks to Generation Interconnections on Transmission Systems
Proposed changes to the process by which requests from electric power generators to interconnect to transmission systems are handled…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Leveraging all Your Resources to Maintain NERC Compliance
Ensuring compliance to NERC standards is critical to hydropower generation operations. Learn about five key steps in the NERC…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
As NERC Sounds Alarm, FERC Asks if its Markets are Ready for the Clean Energy Transition
Conversations about getting renewables on the grid appear to be shifting from “deploy, deploy, deploy,” to “How do we…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Pumped Storage as Transmission: Viable Pathway or A Fool’s Errand?
The National Hydropower Association’s Vice President of Market Strategies analyzes the realities and challenges pumped storage hydro faces as…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Waterpower Week 2022 – Top Five Takeaways
Last week’s Waterpower Week in Washington policy conference highlighted important progress in reforming the federal hydropower licensing process, moving…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
A Focus on Pumped Storage at 2022 Waterpower Week in Washington
During this week’s Waterpower Week in Washington policy conference, the words “Pumped Storage Hydro” will be heard frequently ……
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Tackling the Dunkelflaute and Balancing the System: National Experts Discuss How Markets Can Value Firm and Flexible Resources Like Hydropower
The clean energy transition is posing lots of challenges for the power industry. The largest of these is how…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
FERC Energy Market-Related Reforms – What Could They Mean for Hydro?
As FERC eyes reform to energy and ancillary service markets, what might that mean for conventional hydropower and pumped…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
New Variable-Speed Pumped Storage Projects Will Provide Huge Value to U.S. Transmission Grid
New results from a study of how pumped storage contributes in a low-carbon grid show that CO2 emissions would…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Hydropower in West Is Critical to Grid Resilience, Reliability
A new U.S. Department of Energy report, “Hydropower’s Contributions to Grid Resilience,” finds that hydropower in the western interconnect…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Beyond Chest-Thumping: What Do We Need To Build More Pumped Storage Hydro?
At a session during the recent Clean Currents 2021 Conference + Tradeshow in Atlanta, a group of speakers dug…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
New Guidebook To Help Markets Policy Makers Understand Value of Pumped Storage
NHA's Pumped Storage Development Council recently released its third iteration of a pumped storage report outlining the technology's past…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
The Federal Hydropower Fleet: Important to our Past, Vital for our Future
The leaders of the four federal Power Marketing Administrations share their perspectives of hydro’s role on the grid and…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Zombie Generators, ‘Missing Money,” and the Resources We Actually Need
When states began to de-regulate their electricity industry 25 years ago, they had one major goal: to introduce competition…
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Flexible Hydropower Will Be Critical to Electricity Transmission in 2050
New NREL report shows that hydropower’s flexibility will dramatically lower costs, help integrate variable resources, and lower overall emissions.
- Powerhouse Article | Electricity Markets
Getting Paid for Reliability in Wholesale Electricity Markets: Understanding the Changing Situation
Electricity market designers and policy makers are re-considering the traditional method of determining the adequacy of available electrical generation…
