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On Monday June 9th, the Ohio Power Siting Board approved the application of the Socrates South Power Generation Project. The announcement is the usual sparse and glyphic announcement from a state regulatory body.
What's Happening in Energy highlights the most interesting findings from public utility commission filings.
Connecting the dots between 50 state public utility commissions There's a moment every engineer experiences when they realize the internet is held together with duct tape and good intentions. At Halcyon, our goal is to help make energy information more accessible and useful. That means, as a first step, we need to systematically and reliably discover, collect, and ingest that information from all its (many, many) different sources. As we marched to 50 state public utility commissions (PUCs),...
For most of my career, electricity prices have been dull. For more than a decade, US inflation was very low, and so too was electricity price inflation, regardless of the use class. Homeowners, small-and-medium businesses, and even major heavy industrial consumers could expect price increases in a tight band centered on zero. While the market was not immune from price action, it was not the kind of trend that required customers to take their own action in response.
US electricity demand is growing at a rate not seen in three decades. You know this, of course, if you read this blog, but you also know it from any given week of coverage of the US energy sector. News flow has conditioned us to expect that much of this demand is coming from data centers, which are certainly a highly concentrated, highly visible manifestation of electricity consumption in many state power markets.