Every month, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas publishes its so-called Operational Overview, a report on power system supply, demand, and system operating conditions. Last week, we highlighted it (first on the list) as one of the interesting findings in US energy.
Many creators of information systems, and the numerous users of those systems’ products and services, continually encounter a problem as old as information itself: understanding change.
U.S. electricity demand is growing again, driven by large loads from things like cloud data centers and cryptocurrency miners. With the largest facilities over 1 gigawatt of load, states and utilities court these large loads to attract tax revenues and well-paying jobs.
For years I have been warning that rising demand forecasts and the failure to retain existing generators or build adequate new power generation is threatening resource adequacy and the reliability of our power grid. I look forward to addressing this important topic with my colleagues and others who can contribute important information and give their views on how we move forward on this critically important issue.
For the past week, we at Halcyon have been doing a ‘retro’ on the Halcyon Alerts service which we launched last year. It works, and thousands of you use it. We also know two things about it.
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