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Advantage of tight hour ahead forecasts

Having won a hard fought battle for fair treatment, wind plant generators in the United States North...

Efficiency and the balancing market

Balancing markets are emerging as the favoured mechanism by which market forces can be brought into ...

Forecasting focus on who pays in Spain

With more than 5500 MW of wind plant now online in Spain -- making up about 8% of total installed po...

Leases on Texas state lands for wind development

The Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) says he will offer leases on state lands for...

What the weather man says

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) is one of a small handful of suppliers of numerical weathe...

Balancing costs halved by forecasst program

Wind forecasting saves the largest German transmission system operator, E.on Netz, about EUR 150 mil...

Dutch not optimistic

More accurate wind forecasting methods will reduce the penalties paid by Dutch wind producers for va...

Forecasting wind plant output

As wind energy starts to contribute significantly to power supplies on both sides of the Atlantic, i...

Federal faltering

The August 14 blackout that affected about 45 million homes and businesses in North America has focu...

German utilities to mend their ways

An expert hearing on the balancing power market this month, initiated by Germany's federal economics...

Irish resource needs Europe link

Ireland should aim for 2000 MW of installed wind capacity by 2010, the Irish Wind Energy Association...

Regional transmission plans move forward

While federal government impotence on energy in America continues, wind advocates are involved in so...

A revolution for local transmission networks

The bulk of the rewiring effort to prepare Britain for 10% of electricity from renewables by 2010 co...

Regulating for least cost electricity

The government's favouritism of Scottish generation is running at odds with Ofgem's remit to regulat...

Providing grid service -- Wind integration

As the size of wind turbines and wind farms grow, transmission operators want greater assurance that...

First big project for New Mexico -- Xcel meets RPS obligations

A Texas-based developer is to begin building an 80 MW project in eastern New Mexico in March, althou...

The North South imbalance

The structure of the power network in Great Britain evolved to bring power from the coal-fired power...

Operator poised to grant grid access -- Boom prospects in Catalonia

The final stamp of approval hangs tantalisingly over 1000 MW of planned wind development in Spain's ...

ScottishPower call for compensation over back-up

Full marks for effrontery go to ScottishPower, which has called on the government for £100 million a...

Controversial policy benefits wind -- Transmission upgrades when and where needed

A recent decision by the government of Canadian province Alberta to build new transmission where and...

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