US: +1 (877) 51 POWER 
Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 While the cost of natural gas and other generation fuels have decreased in the past few years, the overall retail price of electricity has remained relatively flat. This is due to the rising costs associated with owning, operating, and maintaining electricity generation plants, along with the increasing cost of transmission projects, which has led to […]
A perfect storm is brewing in New England and California The Aliso Canyon natural gas leak, unexpected lower generation capacity, and warmer than anticipated weather could threaten reliability and strain electricity grids. One way to avoid high prices resulting from the increased demand is to sign up for Tradition Energy’s Coincident Peak Alert Notifications. Natural […]
New England winter natural gas prices are highly dependent on supply coming into the region. Several planned pipeline extensions, which would bring much needed extra supply to New England are in danger of being shut down. If opponents of Kinder Morgan’s $3.3 billion pipeline project have their way, federal regulators will throw out its application […]
For the first time, the US is exporting natural gas in liquefied form. The excess supply of natural gas in the US is the cause for the current low energy prices, and many companies are hoping to ease the supply glut by exporting gas to countries around the globe that are in need. Source: U.S […]
FERC puts renewables at 17.4% of total installed U.S. generating capacity, including 8.59% hydro, 5.91% wind (68,830 MW), 1.43% biomass, 1.13% solar (13,180 MW), and 0.34% geothermal steam. No new nuclear capacity was added in 2015, and only 9 MW of oil and 3 MW of coal. Because of differing capacity factors, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review the legality of an Obama administration regulation aimed at encouraging efficiency in the electricity market by having electrical grid operators pay users to reduce consumption at peak times. The court said it will hear an appeal filed by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory […]
There are ‘physical limitations’ on how fast states can build new infrastructure, analysts say. For many observers, the saga over the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan is getting more and more like the first human trip to Mars: Nobody’s gone yet, but half the critics think it’s not worth going and the other half think they know […]
Over the past two winters, ISO-NE has implemented a program to ensure adequate energy supplies in the region even on the coldest days of the year. The so-called Winter Reliability Program (WRP) successfully kept the lights on and gas flowing during the Polar Vortex of 2014 and the coldest weather of winter 2015 as well. […]
Demand response (DR) advocates in Texas are preparing a bill they say would open up the state’s energy markets and unlock DR growth. Reducing power consumption can help control up to 4% of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ (ERCOT) peak load, FERC determined in a 2012 report. That’s actually the lowest among organized markets […]
