Andy Kowalczyk

It's Going to Happen First in Texas with Nat Bullard (Part 2) In Part 2 of my conversation with Nat Bullard, we talk about the rise of batteries in Texas, the Texas Energy Fund, the value of distributed energy, demand flexibility & more

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The United States is on track for a record increase in power generation capacity in 2025, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports.
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It looks like MISO's routine price separation is supporting Ukraine today.

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Same congestion pattern, different day in MISO South

Can someone make me a map of all the NREL geospatial wind and solar data and all of the existing and planned HVDC lines across the U.S. superimposed?

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They still don’t really know what happened yet! A fire near a line *maybe for a portion near the Languedoc region. Cyberattack? Nobody knows. Wild

Vietnamese energy dominance with #windpower

Next level distribution planning in Ho Chi Minh City.

I’ll add, contrary to my experience with Entergy NOLA. The power hasn’t flickered even a bit for 9 million people

There's only so much room for the working groups, acronyms, initiatives and scenarios of yesteryear in RTO land

🙏! This is it! The one thing I'm puzzled about with ITP also, is that they do 10 years out, but the count benefits for 40 years?

What is that? Do they just freeze the resource buildout at ten years out and assume it for the 40 year period?

#energysky Where does one find SPP's ITP Futures forecasted buildout? Like what MISO provides in their Futures Series 1a report?

Today, March 18, states like Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and other nearby states are getting 60% of their power from wind energy. #energysky

The gap between the second and third meetings was 12 days (not counting Thanksgiving). Feedback requested, not reviewed by MISO's admission. What was reviewed was cherrypicked...

From December 6th ERAS Workshop Presentation

I find this stakeholder process for MISO's ERAS proposal utterly absurd. The gap between the first and second meeting discussing their proposal was 2 whole weekdays. Feedback requested, not reviewed

Pakistan's solar boom Podcast Episode · Volts · 02/26/2025 · 1h 1m

Awesome insight on Pakistan’s market for solar podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Another solar record in ERCOT today, this time with exactly 24,000 megawatts of output just a few minutes ago. That's 7,000 megawatts more than this time last year, a 40% increase in one year. Prices, of course, are low, <$15 per megawatt-hour.

What The Hell Is DeepSeek? Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/31/2025 · 33m

Pretty scathing take on what is happening with the Ai market in the U.S. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

As a former Caltrain rider this one is close to my heart;)

ERCOT energy storage profile showing high discharge in calm, cold morning and evening. I drew a funny face on it to look like a jackalope (the discharge peaks are the horns)

ERCOT storage showing the typical cold winter pattern of high discharge in morning and evening… it ain’t a duck, so can we call this the jackalope? (Annotation mine) #energysky #txenergy

Well this is not nice

SPP wind looks like it's getting curtailed. Whether that's because they're trying to balance the system and are running into challenges, or because of congestion / constraints, it's hard to tell, but it looks like the latter considering the LMP map

Imports in-to MISO have largely come from PJM's footprint for most of the day, reaching almost 5k in imports at one point. Less from other neighbors including SPP.

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Challenging demand conditions starting throughout MISO, but wind ramping up in both MISO and SPP.

First flurries coming down in NOLA

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Monitoring Winter Storm Enzo, both MISO and SPP are forecasting a decent amount of wind in the latter half of the 21st which coincides with some of the lowest temps.
This should be good for balancing out high wholesale costs, and SPP imports could be big given the temp difference

I filled out all my availability polls, now what do I win?!

More meetings? Aww shucky darns

Chevy needs to make an Electric El Camino. It would be number #1 forever