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| Electricity MarketsWinter 2021 Storm Event in Texas: An Assessment of the Energy System Reliability Failures
An initial overview and assessment of electrical system reliability failures experienced during the extreme weather event that occurred within…
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May 20 Meeting to Explore Lessons Learned from Power Outages
In February 2021, three severe winter storms swept across the United States, causing a major electric power outage in…
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FERC Commissioner Clements and RTO Leaders Provide Insights into Hydro’s Role in the Grid of the Future
Attendees at the April 28, 2021, plenary session during the Waterpower Week conference heard about hydro’s role in the…
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New Report: Maximizing Hydropower’s Value in Wholesale Electricity Markets
A few weeks into starting my position with the National Hydropower Association (NHA), I met with someone who does…
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Sunny with a Chance of Pumped Storage
Several California state agencies recently completed a modeling exercise on how to achieve a zero-carbon grid by 2045. Like…
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What an Investment Tax Credit Could Do for Pumped Storage
Pumped storage is seeing a renaissance of interest from developers, utilities, investment firms and regulators. As the electric power…
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The Dynamics of Hydropower’s Grid Flexibility
The sun doesn’t always shine. At least it didn’t nearly four years ago, when on August 21, 2017, when…
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With hydropower plus batteries, 1+1 may equal 5
Hydropower is America’s first renewable resource and continues to provide 40% of the nation’s clean electricity. For centuries, humans…
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How Markets are Taking Advantage of Hydropower’s Flexibility
To ensure reliability of electricity delivery, independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs) often call upon hydropower…
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Hydropower Increases Generation by 5% in 2020, Renewables Add Record Contribution to Grid
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and a dramatic 3.5% contraction in the economy, 2020 was a banner…
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How Hydropower Could Fit into New FERC Chairman Rich Glick’s Climate Focus
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is a resource-neutral regulator. That means the Federal Power Act requires them to…
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NERC’s grid reliability outlook raises alarms, shows growing need for flexible resources like Hydropower and Pumped Storage
A new transmission grid reliability report raises concern about increasing risk of not being able to meet transmission system…
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Hydro Flexes its ‘Reliability Muscle’ during California Grid Emergency
The August 2020 grid emergency in California that resulted in utilities cutting power to hundreds of thousands of consumers…
