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UVIG Announces 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award Recipient
Read More: UVIG Announces 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award RecipientReston, Va. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) announced Bob Young as the recipient of the 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award for Variable-Generation Plant Operations and Maintenance. In 2012, the UVIG Board of Directors approved a resolution to name its Operations and Maintenance Annual Achievement Award after wind industry veteran Ross Newlin. Newlin,…
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Blog: Coast-to-coast planning studies – really?
Read More: Blog: Coast-to-coast planning studies – really?Although I was raised in Georgia and now live in Iowa, I “grew-up” professionally in California as a planning engineer for PG&E, 1985-1990, performing dynamic analysis of the Western Interconnection (WI). The nature of many WI dynamic problems is such that it is essential to model the entire WI when studying them, yet, computational barriers…
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UVIG Announces Annual Achievement Awards in Tucson, Arizona
Read More: UVIG Announces Annual Achievement Awards in Tucson, ArizonaAward Recipients Reflect UVIG’s Global Presence Tucson, Ariz. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group, (UVIG), honored a broad group of energy professionals for their contributions and accomplishments for the reliable and economic integration of renewable energy. The honorees are all recipients of UVIG’s 2017 Annual Achievement Awards. Mark Ahlstrom, President of the UVIG Board of…
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Blog: Did You Know – Transactive Energy Provides the Next Big Step in DER Integration
Read More: Blog: Did You Know – Transactive Energy Provides the Next Big Step in DER IntegrationMy formal involvement in DER integration work with Utility Wind Integration Group (now UVIG) dates to 2004. Many of the specifics have changed since then, but I would offer the same forecast in 2017 as in 2004; we are entering a new period of uncertainty, challenge and opportunity related to DER. In updating the U.S.…
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Commentary: UVIG Board President responds to Economist feature on renewable energy
Read More: Commentary: UVIG Board President responds to Economist feature on renewable energyIn a recent story from The Economist entitled, “Clean energy’s dirty secret: Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems,” the argument is made that the greater the amount of renewable energy in the market, the lower the market price of energy, and the harder it is for other generators to remain profitable in the…
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Notice of Annual Membership Meeting
Read More: Notice of Annual Membership MeetingThe Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group will conduct an annual meeting of the membership, to be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ. The meeting will take place from 12:00 to 12:45 PM on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The purpose of this meeting will be to provide to the membership the annual reports…