Electricity

Wholesale power sales to California’s Community Choice Aggregators up 114% in Q1

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S&P Global Platts

Author Jeffrey Ryser

Houston — The pattern of wholesale power sales in California in the first quarter of 2019 revealed the strengthening shift in sales to Community Choice Aggregators, or CCAs, according to data filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and compiled by S&P Global Platts.

Total wholesale power sales in the California Independent System Operator market in Q1 2019, rose 18% to 89.3 million MWh. Over the same time period, sales just to …

Generation

NYISO expects larger capacity margin surplus this summer than in 2018

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S&P Global Platts

Author Jared Anderson

New York — The New York Independent System Operator expects to have a power generation capacity margin of at least 423 MW under its extreme weather forecast to meet peak demand this summer.

Under baseline peak weather conditions, the grid operator estimates it will have a 2,227-MW capacity margin surplus, a 628-MW increase over the baseline 2018 forecast, according to a …