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2021 Annual Storage Report
The success of storage in helping to transform the grid depends in large part on its ability to optimize its market participation. This report is designed to help storage stakeholders, including asset operators (IPPs, utilities, power marketers), financial investors, and developers, to better understand differences between potential and actual market performance and factors that optimize this performance.
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A Practical Approach to Implementing 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy for a Data Center
This paper was co-written by Gridmatic and EdgeConneX. It outlines how a pilot deployment may serve to provide data that can validate 24/7 CFE as a practical, effective solution for [...]
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Keeping the lights on in ERCOT
If you live in Austin, Texas, you may have heard that this May 2022 was the hottest on record. So was June. And July. If you live anywhere in the [...]
Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the most substantial climate-related legislation of our generation, with many far-reaching implications. Below are some changes and corresponding implications: PTC solar eligibility One of [...]
The ERCOT Week that Was
It used to be that climate change was a more abstract concept with second or third order effects. This week we saw that it can have first order impacts. MATT [...]
Texas Hums in the Heat, While California Faces Blackouts
Much has been written about California’s forced blackouts in the Summer of 2020, but many may not realize that the Texas grid faced a near-crisis at the same moment. In [...]
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The Icing That Isn’t So Sweet
October 26th was a record-breaking day for wind generation in many of the US ISOs — not for magnitude of production or output, but for magnitude of forecast miss! A [...]