LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A nonprofit company that manages the power grid from the Gulf Coast to Manitoba says it has officially transferred its South operations from its main control center in Carmel, Indiana, to its new Little Rock operations center.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator says the transfer was made at midnight Sunday and will help keep utility costs down.
The $22 million, 50,000-square-foot center has…
Report: “Demand Response” Holds Key to $200 Million in Electric Savings
More than $200 million — that’s the amount all Texans could have saved if a modest number of them had reduced their electric consumption for only five days in 2012 and 2013, according to a new report.
An advocacy group known as SPEER (also known as South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource) found in a report released this week that several expensive-to-operate power plants could have remained idle if some Texans had reduced their power demand during a few hours on certain key days. Avoiding the use of those expensive-to-operate power plants would…