A total mindshift : Utilities replace gas peakers, old school demand response with flexible DERs
Utility-customer cooperation can balance renewables variability with flexibility without using blunt demand response or natural gas. By: Herman K. Trabish
Utilities and their customers are learning how their cooperation can provide mutual benefits by using the flexibility of distributed energy resources (DER) to cost-effectively balance the dynamics of the new power system.
The future is in utilities investing in technologies to manage the growth of customer-owned DER and customers offering their DER as grid services, advocates for utilities and DER told a Jan. 25-28 conference on load flexibility strategies. And there is an emerging pattern of cooperation between utilities and customers based on the shared value they can obtain from reduced peak demand and system infrastructure costs, speakers said.
City of Kountze has been lifted.
Feb. 21, 12:30 p.m.
West Jefferson County Municipal Water District lifted their boil water notices
Feb. 21, 10:45 a.m.
Orange County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 lifted their boil water notice after providing TCEQ with test results that indicate the water no longer needs to be boiled. Anyone with questions should contact (409) 769-2669.
Feb. 20, 4:45 p.m.
The Port Arthur Water Utilities has restored the quality of the water for human consumption purposes only in the areas of the City North of Hwy 73 and provided TCEQ with laboratory test results that indicate that the water no longer requires boiling prior to use as of Feb 20, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
City of Kountze has been lifted.
Feb. 21, 12:30 p.m.
West Jefferson County Municipal Water District lifted their boil water notices
Feb. 21, 10:45 a.m.
Orange County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 lifted their boil water notice after providing TCEQ with test results that indicate the water no longer needs to be boiled. Anyone with questions should contact (409) 769-2669.
Feb. 20, 4:45 p.m.
The Port Arthur Water Utilities has restored the quality of the water for human consumption purposes only in the areas of the City North of Hwy 73 and provided TCEQ with laboratory test results that indicate that the water no longer requires boiling prior to use as of Feb 20, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
Driver ditches car after crash into power pole in Sacramento County Share Updated: 6:37 AM PST Feb 16, 2021 KCRA Staff Share Updated: 6:37 AM PST Feb 16, 2021
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Show Transcript I-80. TY: THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS OUT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY. A POWER POLE WAS CRASHED INTO BY AN SUV AT GERBER AND POWER INN ROADS. BRIAN HICKEY IS JOINING US WITH AN UPDATE. BRIAN: THOSE CREWS LEFT THE SCENE WHICH WAS SURPRISING TO US. SMUD HAVE LEFT THIS POLE DAMAGED IN TWO SPOTS. THEY LEFT IT DANGLING AFTER THIS COLLISION. THERE IS NO IMPACT TO TRAFFIC, BUT THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE EARLIER. C.H.P CAME OUT TO AN SUV THAT SLAMMED INTO A POWER POLE ALONG GERBER ROAD JUST BEFORE POWER INN. IT SHEARED THAT POLE OFF OF THE BASE AND CRACKED IT HALFWAY UP. C.H.P GOT HERE AND THERE WAS NOBODY IN THE VEHICLE. THEY LISTED IT AS A HIT AND RUN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO OWNS THE VEHICLE AND WHO MAY HAVE BEEN DRIVING. AT THIS POINT