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LCG, March 26, 2025--Qcells USA Corp. (Qcells), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hanwha Qcells, and Nofar USA (Nofar), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nofar Energy, recently announced a signed agreement to cooperate on the development and construction of two energy storage projects in Texas. The projects have a combined capacity of 350 MW with a 2-hour duration (700 MWh).
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LCG, March 205, 2025--The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) today announced it will soon be the first regional transmission organization (RTO) in the nation to provide full services in both the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the U.S. power grid. On March 20, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously approved Southwest Power Pool’s amended tariff that includes provisions that enable Western members to join the RTO. The expansion of the SPP RTO is scheduled to go live April 1, 2026.
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Industry News
Bonneville to Increase Rates
LCG, Sept. 5, 2000Citing high prices and higher customer demand, Bonneville Power Administration said on Friday it was "forced" to alter its proposed power rates for the next five years. Cutting through the federal agency's casuistry, that means it will extract more money from its customers.Bonneville said in a news release it "intends to revise the Cost Recovery Adjustment Clause (CRAC) of its 2002-2006 rates so the agency can strengthen its ability to cover its costs over the 2002-2006 rate period." The agency added that it "is not proposing an increase in its basic power rates for the five-year rate period and does not expect to make any change in its basic rates or the CRAC in the first year." That sounds like rates won't change until 2003, but after that look out."Our intent is to limit the scope of the modifications primarily to a revision of the Cost RecoveryAdjustment Clause to make it more robust in years two through five of the rate period," explainedJudi Johansen, Bonneville administrator.What's happening is, electricity consumers in Bonneville's market are trying to hedge against higher power prices by contracting for the agency's cheap federal power and Bonneville keeps signing the contracts even though it doesn't produce enough of that cheap power. So it has to go into the market and buy power and the whole concept of federal power takes a beating.Bonneville's proposal is an adjustment to a current rate filing it made with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this year. Johnson said the agency's customers "are asking for possibly 1,400 average megawatts more than we anticipated in the rate case. Had we stayed with our original rate proposal, the amount of power purchases we would have had to make at the prices we might very well see over the next five years, would have put our financial stability at risk."Confident in the outcome, Bonneville will go on signing contracts until October 31.
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