"Creating Large-Scale Datacenter Energy Parks"
‘Think about using the AC/DC/AC converters on a 4,000 Megawatt interregional HVDC
transmission line as homes for large scale (GW+) datacenters AND the generation to
supply them. Creating energy parks. View Power from the Prairie LLC's comments in
response to DOE's Request for Information (RFI): "Accelerating Speed to
Power/Winning the Artificial Intelligence Race: Federal Action to Rapidly Expand Grid
Capacity and Enable Electricity Demand Growth". It is time to innovate!
"What FERC (and the Planning Regions/RTOs) Should Do to Enable Interregional Electric Transmission”
Read this December 2024 article in The Electricity Journal about what the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and thus their transmission planning regions/Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) should do to enable interregional electric transmission. The challenges are not technology. We have the technology to go interregional. Instead, they are regulatory/geopolitical. This content comes from the PftP Stage 1 Concept Development Study (See full report on “The CDS” page).
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"Green Hydrogen and Electrolysis Load Factor: The Elephant in the Room"
Excitement currently abounds about the prospects of using green hydrogen for clean electricity generation. But there is a proverbial elephant in the room that no one is talking about. Read about the pesky pachyderm and solutions for it in this Power Engineering article.
"The Federation: Enabling interregional electric transmission development and operation"
Read this February 2021 article in The Electricity Journal on how to use interregional HVDC transmission to aggregate wholesale, time-diversified renewable energy into products of varying reliability and associated pricing, and offer it to the organized wholesale markets. The Goal: Higher levels of clean energy than individual utilities, states, and corporations can otherwise achieve.
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“Why Individual Electric Utilities Cannot Achieve 100% Clean Energy”
Announcing plans to achieve 100% clean energy is popular right now. Read this article from The Electricity Journal to learn why it is not physically or economically possible, and how to solve it using interregional transmission and long duration storage like Power from the Prairie.
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"Why the Vision of Interregional Electric Transmission Development in FERC Order 1000 is Not Happening"
FERC Order 1000 envisioned interregional electric transmission development in the US. Read this article from The Electricity Journal that describes why, after nearly ten years, it is not yet happening and potential solutions.
“100% Clean Energy: The California Conundrum”
California leads the way toward 100% clean energy going forward. Read this article from The Electricity Journal that describes the challenges involved and solutions to achieve it.
Enabling Large-Scale Renewables in the Upper Midwest
How to pack 3,300 MW of renewables down an existing 2,400 MW HVDC transmission line from Utah to Southern California? Read about it in this January 2018 Power Engineering article.
Market and Tariff Challenges to Grid-Level Energy Storage
Thinking about using grid-level energy storage to enable renewables in an RTO or ISO? Read about the challenges involved and solutions for them in this paper.
Gregory County Pumped Storage with Renewables Feasibility Study
How to combine 1200 MW of pumped hydro storage and 2,400 MW of wind energy to create a dispatchable, 100% renewable, baseload energy resource for the future.
Lessons from Iowa
The lessons-learned in the proposed 270 MW Iowa Stored Energy Park compressed air energy storage (CAES) project. This summary report is the DOE “cookbook” on how (and how not) to do a CAES facility enabling wind development in an ISO. For the detailed references, consult www.lessonsfromiowa.org