The Texas Flex: How Connect and Manage can deliver speed to power for generation and load
After celebrating the United States 250th birthday, leaders of each of the country’s six regional grid operators are now spending the week determining how they plan to power the country’s largest energy customers, a challenge that impacts everyone from the...
FERC’s New Load Flexibility Framework Is Only Half the Battle. Now, Apply It to Generation.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) landmark action issuing "show-cause" orders to the nation's regional transmission organizations (RTOs) has injected a dose of pragmatic urgency into the grid expansion...
Flex and Invest: A new approach to Generator Interconnection
The current approach to interconnecting new clean energy resources to the grid is too slow, thwarts competition, and costs too much. As of 2024, the average wait time to connect a new generator to the grid was 55 months, more...
Another one bites the dust: Mitigating reliability concerns as the aging US coal fleet is replaced
The average coal plant in the US is 45 years old, born the same year as Queen’s rock anthem “Another one bites the dust.” It’s a little too fitting that this has also become the anthem of coal power generation...