Aug. 31-Sept. 7, 2009
CAPP NEWS ROUNDUP
August 31, 2009 through September 7, 2009
Industry News
ETT to install Texas’ first transmission line battery and why this has anything to do with your life
By Elizabeth Souder
Dallas Morning News
September 2, 2009
Electric Transmission Texas LLC plans to install a battery on a new transmission line to remote Presidio, Texas, the first such battery in the state. This affects your life in two ways. First, if you live within the Texas grid, operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, you're probably going to help pay for the $23 million piece of new technology.
CPS boosting incentives for solar
By Anton Caputo
San Antonio Express-News
September 1, 2009
The two-year program, called the Solartricity Producer Program, will launch in January. It is not aimed at home solar projects, but at prompting midsize facilities to bridge the gap between residential rooftop arrays and huge solar fields. CPS Energy will accept applications for projects that produce 25 to 500 kilowatts. The average home rooftop solar installation is 3 kilowatts.
Cost of nuke expansion expected soon
By Anton Caputo
San Antonio Express-News
September 1, 2009
San Antonians should have a much better idea by the end of the year about what the expansion of the nuclear South Texas Project will cost, NRG Energy CEO David Crane said. That's when NRG and its partner, San Antonio's CPS Energy, hope to have a fixed baseline cost hammered out with Toshiba Inc. to build two new reactors outside Bay City.
Bills to rise without nuke investment
By Vicki Vaughan
San Antonio Express-News
September 6, 2009
Yet CPS leaders say more power will be needed for a growing city beyond the next power plant, coal-fired Spruce 2, which will be finished next summer. CPS has pushed a plan to add two reactors to the South Texas Project at a cost to the utility of $5.2 billion, a plan that has touched off a contentious debate.