FERC Moves. President Biden has named FERC commissioner Phillips as the acting chair of the commission and the task to review the recent outages across the country kicks off at the same time. Within days of unscheduled outages, plant operators must notify FERC of the outage. ERCOT and other utilities had high profile reductions in available capacity during the recent winter storm.
Executive Moves In Tracking. Friend of SolarWakeup and former guest on our podcast, Jenya Meydbray, makes a leap from a company he founded and sold to join the innovative tracking company Nevados Engineering. Nevados is best known for the leading all-terrain tracker that eliminates grading on utility scale solar projects. The move by Jenya, announced on his Linkedin, follows former SunPower executive, Jack Bennett, joining the company as President and COO.
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- Utility Dive: Duke Energy apologizes for winter storm outages as FERC, NERC open investigation into grid failures
- New York Times: Why Are Energy Prices So High? Some Experts Blame Deregulation.
- PV-Tech: SolarEdge acquires UK IoT company Hark Systems
- Energy Storage News: Hawaii Island’s biggest solar-plus-storage plant will soon deliver power at 9 cents/kWh
- Reuters: Biden names Phillips acting head of energy regulator
- Canary Media: What’s next for grid storage after a booming but chaotic year?
- PV-Magazine: New York to add 25 GWh of energy storage for less than the cost of a slice of pizza
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