Xcel Annual Shareholder Meeting
May 14th, 2018
FYI, you only get to go inside if you register, and to register, you have to have owned stock by March 20, 2018. You have to register, and then THEY decide if you can go.
IT WILL BE WEBCAST — CLICK THIS XCEL LINK!
Xcel Energy’s 2017 peak demand – DOWN again
April 3rd, 2018
Once more with feeling, Xcel Energy’s peak demand is DOWN, DOWN, DOWN! From their year end SEC filing: Xcel Energy 2017 10-K
And over the last 17 years:
That 8,546 MW is down 1,313 from the 2006 peak. Xcel is now at legislature pushing hard for free rein on money to rehab its Prairie Island plant here in Red Wing. The same plant that was being rehabbed, got a Certificate of Need, and then they withdrew it saying it wasn’t needed. Oh… and now? It’s not adding up, folks.
Plains & Eastern Clean Line DOA — thanks DOE!
March 23rd, 2018
This says it all!
CONGRATULATIONS TO BLOCK PLAINS & EASTERN!!!
DOE Drops Its Deal With Clean Line; Wind Project Won’t Cross Arkansas
Hot off the press – PJM Monitoring Analytics!
March 8th, 2018
It’s out, the PJM Monitoring Analytics “State of the Market” report. Check the pages at the very beginning for info about “external subsidies” and proposed subsidization of uneconomic nuclear generation.
Important factoid – peak demand down 4.3%
Here’s the 2017 State of the Market Report:
Volume I
Volume I (2MB PDF) contains the introduction.Volume II
Volume II (14MB PDF) contains detailed analysis and results.
Check out the real-time PJM Locational Marginal Pricing map:
Comment Filed – Power Plant Siting Act
February 9th, 2018
Yes, it’s that time of year again, and today’s the deadline for Comments for the Power Plant Siting Act Annual Hearing:
And there ya have it. Until next year…