Caltech study boosts transactive energy
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15 May 2013
Transactive energy markets that can integrate distributed resources with the bulk power grid could achieve much greater economic efficiency and reliability, according to a Caltech report released last fall and discussed at Intelligent Utility. The Resnick Sustainability Institute’s Grid2020 research will be among the subjects aired at next week’s Transactive Energy Conference in Portland, and was the focus of discussion of the Grid 2020 series last month. But this transformation will require changes in both market design and grid operations. That change will enable distributed resources to participate in local and sub-regional markets, in a way that is coordinated with the bulk power system.
Read about transactive energy markets here.
Israel, while becoming a big gas player, is challenging Middle East geopolitics
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15 May 2013
Israel is the latest member of the natural gas club, promising energy security for a country once dependent on expensive imports of oil from the world market, the Washington Post reports. According to the account, gas from vast offshore reserves has begun flowing to Israel and raising the prospect that the country could become a significant gas exporter to energy-short neighbors, some of whom have disputed the existence of the Jewish nation, and who might refuse to buy gas from Israel. The newspaper notes that “that some Arab countries might refuse gas — at any price — from Israel. For years, many oil-rich Arab nations have declined to directly supply Israel with oil.”
See if Eastern Med gas fields will change regional politics here.
Boston joins cities mandating reports on building energy use, GHG emissions
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15 May 2013
By a 9-4 vote, Boston’s City Council has approved a plan by Mayor Thomas Menino that mandates large commercial and residential buildings to reveal their energy and water usage and greenhouse gas emissions. According to Energy Manager Today, the measure will require some 1,600 buildings – those commercial buildings of over 35,000 square feet in floor space and residential buildings with over 35 units – to make annual reports. Other major cities that have adopted similar ordinances including New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia.
Read about Boston’s big efficiency move.
Appeals court gives Southern Calif. Edison partial win in transmission case
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13 May 2013
By Kennedy Maize
May 14, 2013 -- Southern California Edison won a round in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday, but it may not be the end of the matter. The court opinion was largely procedural and the commission will get another crack at the substance.
