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LCG, May 8, 2025--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors approved SPP’s proposed Expedited Resource Adequacy Study (ERAS) at its May 6 meeting. SPP developed the new ERAS in collaboration with its stakeholders in response to the growing need to add new generating resources before the region’s generating capacity is outpaced by its electricity demands. ERAS is intended to be a one-time, expedited study process designed to significantly accelerate the addition of new power generation facilities to the grid and address concerns about the near term ability to maintain the affordable and reliable electric service that consumers expect.
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LCG, May 7, 2025--EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA) announced yesterday the inauguration of its Scarlet II Solar Energy Park (Scarlet II) in Fresno County, California. This phase of the solar plus energy storage project includes 200 MW of solar capacity, plus a co-located 150 MW/600 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The initial phase of the project, Scarlet I, which provides 200 MW of solar and 40 MW/160 MWh of BESS, achieved commercial operations in July 2024.
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Industry News
AWEA Issues Fourth Quarter 2018 Market Report
LCG, February 6, 2019--The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) recently released its new U.S. Wind Industry Fourth Quarter 2018 Market Report. AWEA reports new wind turbine installations have added 5,944 MW of electric generating capacity during the fourth quarter, which results in year-to-date installations totaling 7,588 MW. The total installations represent an eight percent increase over 2017, but the total for 2018 falls short of total annual installations for 2015 and 2016. The total U.S. installed capacity is now 96,488 MW.
In addition to new capacity additions, developers completed 909 MW of partial repowerings in the fourth quarter, resulting in 1,237 MW of partial repowerings and 107 MW of full repowerings for the year.
At the end of 2018, AWEA reports there were 16,521 MW of wind capacity under construction and 18,574 MW in advanced development. The combined 35,095 MW is a decline from the recent high in the third quarter due to the large volume of projects entering commercial operation, but still represents a 22 percent year-over-year increase.
Wind capacity installations in Texas totaled 2,359 MW for the year; Iowa trailed well behind, with 1,120 MW installed, and Colorado finished third, with 600 MW installed. Other top states installing over 500 MW of wind capacity are: Oklahoma (576 MW), Nebraska (558 MW), Kansas (543 MW) and Illinois (529 MW).
Texas retains its number one ranking with respect to cumulative wind power installations, with 24,899 MW, followed by Iowa (8,422 MW) and Oklahoma (8,072 MW).
The top five owners of new wind capacity installed in 2018 are: NextEra Energy Resources (1,406 MW), Berkshire Hathaway Energy (1,329 MW), Enel Green Power North America (802 MW), Xcel Energy (600 MW) and EDP Renewables North America (317 MW).
In 2018 GE Renewable Energy captured 40 percent of U.S. wind turbine capacity installations, followed by Vestas (38 percent), Nordex USA (11 percent) and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (eight percent) of installations. The majority of turbines commissioned last year have a nameplate capacity between 2 MW and 3 MW, while nearly a quarter of projects used turbines rated 3 MW and above.
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