New York — The New York Independent System Operator’s five-year power grid plan sets out six strategic initiatives to guide its projects and resource allocation that include pricing carbon emissions into the wholesale market, which could increase power prices by about $10-$15/MWh, an analyst said Wednesday. …
Power companies lose fight over transmission costs in Texas, a win for renewables
Houston Chronicle
by Erin Douglas
Texas regulators last week rejected a proposal to change the way transmission costs are apportioned among power generators, a move that would have cost wind farms in West Texas more to get their power to market.
Electricity is lost naturally as electrons travel along transmission lines and the state apportions the costs of the lost power equally …