NewsData’s Energy West is taking off for the holidays. Dan Catchpole and Jason Fordney will be back in the New Year to fill you in on the latest in the energy industry in the West. Until then, stay up to date with the latest reporting from Clearing Up and California Energy Markets at Newsdata.com. And this Friday, Dec. 23, make sure to check out NewsData’s annual energy Christmas Carols! (Can’t wait that long? Pass the time with our 2021 carols .)...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about a flurry of news about creating organized energy markets in the West: PacifiCorp joins CAISO’s extended day-ahead market , CAISO releases its final day-ahead market proposal and 11 utilities join the Western Resource Adequacy Program . Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dca...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about what’s going on in the energy industry in the West. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy ....
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about what’s going on in the energy industry in the West. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy ....
Jason Fordney reports this week's news from NARUC in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Unlike the rest of North America, the West’s power grid outside California is a patchwork of utility fiefdoms generating, wheeling and distributing electricity. Centralized electricity markets dominate the rest of the continent. There is widespread consensus in the energy industry that the West needs greater coordination if it’s going to decarbonize and keep the lights on in millions of homes from New Mexico to British Columbia. Two organizations—the Southwest Power Pool and the California ISO—a...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about income and racial disparities in the home solar market, volatility concerns of some BPA customers, Salt River Project adding more grid storage, the uncertain fate of NW Natural’s renewable hydrogen pilot project, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @...
Listen in as Dan Catchpole and Jason Fordney discuss highlights from the energy industry on the northwest and west coast.
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California studying expanding its energy market , rising CAISO prices , wind power off the West Coast , EV battery makers , demand response’s increasing importance in the Northwest , and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy ....
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about updated load-management standards by the California Energy Commission, the Northwest falling short of its six-year energy efficiency target , how much millionaires in California should pay for new electric vehicle chargers and wildfire mitigation , the huge amount of solar power that FERC expects to be built by 2025 , and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clear...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about Southwest Power Pool’s vision for an RTO in the West , intrigue and in-fighting in Arizona’s Salt River Project , a growing rift between Northwest public power utilities and the White House , environmentalists’ objections to hydrogen fuel development, and a push in the Northwest to ban sales of gas-powered cars . They also discuss the tragic death of industry leader Therese Hampton . Read more about what’s happen...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about: expediting utility undergrounding, Jason's response to opinion columns in the LA Times about whether or not rural California towns that were destroyed by wildfires should be rebuilt, Southwest Power Pool's draft service offering, and electric transportation news. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUn...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney discuss expanding the Southwest Power Pool’s regional transmission organization into the West , California’s ambitious plan to install 250,000 EV chargers , the reliability of hydropower in the West during droughts , and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @fordney...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about how the Northwest helped California keep the lights on during its early September heat wave–and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy ....
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about one of the worst wildfire weekends in the West this year. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata , @CEMnewsdata , @dcatchpole and @fordneyenergy ....
UPDATE: Since this was recorded, several more Western utilities said they are also moving forward with the next phase of Southwest Power Pool’s market proposal for the West. Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Abigail Sawyer talk about efforts by California lawmakers to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant operating , growing support for the Southwest Power Pool’s market proposal for the West and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the Wes...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about two top Washington elected officials say they’re in no rush to breach the four lower Snake River dams, California is one (big) step closer to requiring all new cars are zero-emission by 2035, Western AGs join to oppose natural gas pipeline expansion, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsd...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California ISO’s latest market proposal , a major step forward for the West’s new surplus capacity sharing program , a much quieter wildfire season , NW Natural’s hydrogen project to reduce carbon emissions , and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata and @CEMnewsdata ....
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California’s huge offshore wind goals , upgrading transmission lines to reach clean energy goals , lawmakers pushing CAISO to expand into a regional market and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twitter: @CUnewsdata and @CEMnewsdata ....
Due to vacation plans, NewsData's Energy West Weekly Wrap Up is off this week. Jason and Dan will be back next week with the latest on what's happening in the West. Stay current with the latest power industry news at NewsData's Clearing Up and California Energy Markets .
Listen in as Jason Fordney and Abigail Sawyer discuss highlights from the energy industry in the northwest and west coast. This episode was recorded on August 1.
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the state and federal regulators’ increasing focus on the critical need for more transmission lines , the West’s increasing momentum toward organized markets , California’s $7 million push to electrify trucking , why Oregon is the “ Saudi Arabi of offshore wind ,” and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets . Follow us on Twi...
In the latest episode of NewsData's Energy West podcast, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney and Clearing Up Associate Editor Dan Catchpole discuss happenings at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Summer Policy Summit in San Diego this week, a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that says breaching the Lower Snake River dams is necessary to protect salmon populations, comments from a top federal energy regulator on transmission...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the eye-popping cost estimate of replacing the four federally-owned dams on the lower Snake River dam, California state agencies’ newfound ability to procure generation , cost projections for Washington’s carbon cap and invest program , and more. California’s sweeping energy legislation to boost the grid’s capacity–even if it includes fossil fuel resources, the latest assessment of taking down the lower Snake Riv...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about California’s sweeping energy legislation to boost the grid’s capacity–even if it includes fossil fuel resources, the latest assessment of taking down the lower Snake River dams, possibly keeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant longer than previously planned, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets ....
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the increasingly volatile conditions in the West’s wholesale markets, resource adequacy plans in California, BPA’s outlook for secondary sales, and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets ....
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the calls for more oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric , bold predictions for the future of wind energy, more money for Bonneville Power Administration’s salmon mitigation programs , tech giants’ turn toward renewable energy , and more. Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at Newsdata’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets ....
In the latest episode of Energy West, California Energy Markets Editor Jason Fordney and Associate Editor Abigail Sawyer dive into the California Air Resources Board's latest zero-emission vehicle proposal, $18 million in grants awarded by the California Energy Commission, mixed reactions to the Inslee-Murray lower Snake River dams report, a Norwegian battery maker's plans to open a factory in Washington state, and more!
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about the Southwest Power Pool’s governance straw proposal for Markets+ , consternation over FERC’s refund order , and more. Learn more about regional market conditions and near-term market outlooks at the 6th Annual Pacific Northwest Wholesale Power Markets Conference . The June 23-24 virtual event—co-presented by NewsData and CJB Energy Economics—will feature leading energy officials from around the Northwest and bey...
Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about Dan’s scoop that the Bonneville Power Administration is considering joining an informal group exploring regional market structures in the West , the hidden risk of sleeping cybersecurity intrusions , how state energy policies in California are falling short of long-term emissions goals , Newsdata’s 40th anniversary , Jason’s bands and more. Learn more about regional market conditions and near-term market outlooks...
