The California Independent System Operator is curtailing growing amounts of renewable generation, Mark Rothleder, the grid operator’s vice president for market quality and integrating renewables, said.
Speaking Wednesday during a meeting of the Western energy imbalance market board, Rothleder said the ISO curtailed about 60,000 MWh in February and about 80,000 MWh in March, up from about 21,000 MWh and …
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas set a wind-output record of 16,141 MW Friday night, it reported on Saturday in its daily wind integration report.
ERCOT said the record was set at 8:56 pm CDT Friday and wind accounted for about 39.5% of the total power demand at that time.
In the real-time market, for the 15 minutes interval ended 9 pm Friday, the price for ERCOT West Hub was about $5.50/MWh, while prices for all other hubs averaged near $13.50/MWh. …