The Houston merchant power company Calpine has claimed responsibility for a data error that sent wholesale power prices spiking at the end of May and, according to an estimate from a commodity trading firm in Houston, cost consumers, industrial customers,…
Month: July 2019
New Cal-ISO rules will prevent sudden, massive renewable outages
Washington — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved rule changes that will help California Independent System Operator prevent events in which hundreds of megawatts of inverter-based resources like wind and solar needlessly trip offline and cause immediate reliability issues.…