NYISO Forest Fires Challenge Solar Forecast Models in New York Last week's wildfires in Canada produced a significant amount of smoke that drifted into the United States. How did this affect the electrical grid?
nuclear What Happens When a Nuclear Plant Suddenly Shuts Off? Nearly instantaneously, a significant portion of nuclear generation in New England disappeared. This abrupt outage created measurable effects across the grid that we explore in this post.
batteries Balancing Act in California While CAISO continues to set renewable generation records, there are worrying signs of regional balkanization of flexibility which could increase fossil fuel generation in an era when many BAs in the West are trying to do the opposite.
In the Queue We are excited to share that the Grid Status Blog is currently in the "interconnection queue". We're working on our synchronization and will be up and running soon.
