Ancillary Services - new ORNL report
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FERC has recognized the importance of ancillary services for bulk-power reliability and support of commercial transactions on interconnected transmission systems, and Order 888 includes a pro forma tariff for six key ancillary services.
DOE Reliability TF PAPER
In its Interim Report, the Task Force recommended that federal legislation clarify the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) authority to approve and oversee the operations of an electric-reliability organization.
Ontario Gets Full Retail Competition by 2000
For those of you interested interested in Ontario Hydro. The Ontario Government today released its long awaited White Paper which puts a timetable on electricity restructuring: full retail access by the year 2000. Ontario Hydro is being broken up!
CURC Technology Conference
Restructuring is providing new opportunities for collaboration of energy RD&D efforts. Recent California legislation (AB1890) has made available $62.5 million per year for public interest energy RD&D to be managed by the California Energy Commission (CEC).
Second DOE study on Greenhouse Gases
DOE is preparing another major study on greenhouse gases for release by the end of Novermber, called "Technology Opportunities to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions", also known as the "11-Lab Study".
Energy Stg Assoc Meeting next week
Our upcoming Fall meeting in Sacramento is shaping up to be our most exciting to date. Our meeting location represents the seat of change for the largest transformation in the US electricity industry. It further represents a location for new opportunities in our emerging energy storage industry.
Civil & Geotechnology Services - Ontario Hydro
As a result of many years of providing expert opinion and applying leading edge technology to Ontario Hydro's 7000 MW hydroelectric generation system, comprised of 69 generating stations and over 200 dams, as well as its fossil and nuclear facilities, OHT has developed expertise in the following areas.
Civil & Geotechnology Services - Ontario Hydro
As a result of many years of providing expert opinion and applying leading edge technology to Ontario Hydro's 7000 MW hydroelectric generation system, comprised of 69 generating stations and over 200 dams, as well as its fossil and nuclear facilities, OHT has developed expertise in the following areas.
New EIA reports
As Chinese President Jiang Zemin visits the United States during the week of October 27, 1997, the U.S. Energy Information Administration is releasing an extensive report on China's energy sector. Included are some charts which include energy forecasts for China as well as analysis on the structure of China's energy sector.
Elec Reliability TF 6th meeting Nov 6
The meeting will build on the task force's Interim Report and will include discussions of the following items: .Draft Position Paper on a Self-Regulating Reliability Organization, Draft Paper on Technology Issues Affecting Reliability, and Panel Discussion on the Role of ISOs in Maintaining Reliability
Followup re UK internet on Powerline
Here are two comments on the Nortel Norweb press release of Oct. 8. The first is from Wired Magazine's website, and points out some of the reasons why this technology may not take the world by storm right away. The second from Reuters gives a bit more technical and business detail.
Magnetic Refrigeration
Ames Lab and Astronautics Corporation of America, are making considerable progress towards a commercially viable refrigeration technology based on the magnetocaloric effect present in certain rare earth materials .
Ceramicrete Phosphate Ceramic
During the last three years, Ceramicrete (chemically bonded phosphate ceramics) has been investigated at Argonne-East for low-temperature stabilization and solidification of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE's) mixed wastes.
Residential Indirect-Direct Evaporative Cooling (IDAC)
Davis Energy Group has developed an indirect-direct evaporative cooling system for residential use that can meet 100% of a home’s cooling requirements in dry climates, while consuming only 15% to 40% of the energy consumed by conventional systems.
Next Meeting, Reliability TF
The electric power industry is in the midst of a complex transition to competition, which will induce many far-reaching changes in the structure of the industry and the institutions which regulate it. This transition raises many reliability issues, as new entities emerge in the power markets and as generation becomes less integrated with transmission.
