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Expedited Long-Term RFP and Same Technology Upgrade Results

May 16, 2023
By 
Travis Lusney

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Battery Systems <5 MW begin capturing New York VDER revenue

May 3, 2023
By 
Andrew Kinross, Ketan Lakhani, Brady Yauch & Wesley Stevens

The amount of operational battery storage in New York is relatively small but poised for significant growth. A New York Public Service Commission press release indicated that just 130 megawatts of energy storage in total was operating in the state as of November 2022. A wide variety of incentive programs, such as the Bridge Incentive program, have supported these projects.

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A Proposal for Clean Energy Corporate Power Purchase Agreements in Ontario

April 26, 2023
By 
Jason Chee-Aloy

On April 26 at the Ontario Energy Association Speaker Event in Toronto, Jason Chee-Aloy (Managing Director) delivered a proposal for clean energy corporate PPAs in Ontario and described how such PPAs are increasingly driving development of renewable electricity supply and economic development across multiple jurisdictions.

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Whose Energy Storage Offer Is It Anyway?

April 14, 2023
By 
Brady Yauch

We have been asked repeatedly how Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) (“storage”) will operate in Ontario’s wholesale energy market in the coming years, which led us to ask: what goes into a storage offer anyway?

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March 2023 Ontario Electricity Market Update: What's Next For Procurements in Ontario?

March 31, 2023
By 
Sarah Simmons

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is in the last stages of the Expedited Long-Term 1 Request for Proposals (E-LT1 RFP) for the procurement of new electricity reliability services.

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March 2023 Alberta Electricity Newsletter: Managing the Energy Transition: Reliability and Connection

March 31, 2023
By 
Leonard Olien

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Challenges of Developing and Building New Transmission Facilities

March 24, 2023
By 
John Dalton

An important contributor to the challenges of developing and building new transmission facilities is that the broad-based benefits that the facilities offer typically are realized by different parties: (1) the customer or transmission rights holder; (2) the transmission system operator or transmission owner; and (3) society.

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Alternative Transmission Development Model

January 31, 2023
By 
John Dalton

The CAISO has developed an alternative transmission development model, the Subscriber Participating Transmission Owner (PTO) model, to support the development of additional transmission necessary to achieve the state’s public policy requirements.

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January 2023 Ontario Electricity Market Update: When is a Contract not a Contract?

January 31, 2023
By 
Avi Lipsitz

Recent months have seen a flurry of rather unusual regulatory applications across the United States: energy and/or storage suppliers asking regulators to approve increases to the amounts they are to be paid for their services, not in the procurement and bidding stages, but after contracts have been signed, and in many cases when project development is well underway.

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January 2023 Alberta Electricity Newsletter - 2022 Alberta Market in Review

January 31, 2023
By 
Ketan Lakhani

2022 was a record-breaking year that saw the highest price, the highest recorded Alberta Internal Load (AIL), and the greatest number of wind and solar additions yet . The year also had the highest frequency of hours of congestion observed in the system, especially in the South planning area.

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