Electricity

Wholesale power sales in Q2 fall 4.5% on year; wind and solar make up 7.1% of total

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S&P Global Platts

Author: Jeffrey Ryser

Houston — April, May and June of 2020 will likely stand for some time as the landmark for depressed quarterly wholesale power sales, according to data filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and compiled by S&P Global Platts.

The brunt of the coronavirus pandemic and attendant stay-at-home policies hit power demand hard in the second quarter of 2020, with sales of wholesale power off 4.5% compared with the same period last year, and totaling 1.27 billion MWh. In Q2 2019, wholesale power sales totaled …

Electricity

Listen: How Texas’ energy policies are working to shape ERCOT’s energy transition

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S&P Global Platts

Amy Gasca, Manan Ahuja, Mark Watson

Amy Gasca, Manan Ahjua and Mark Watson of S&P Global Platts talk with Brett Perlman, CEO of the Center for Houston’s Future and ex-Public Utility Commissioner of Texas, about the state’s energy policies and the energy transition.

* Is ERCOT’s market functioning as it was intended?

* How can Houston’s role as “Energy Capital of the World” shape North America’s energy transition?