Keephills#2 came back online at 15:59 yesterday but Sundance#6 went offline at 21:17 yesterday…A record-breaking heat wave has enveloped Canada’s most populous corridor with a mixture of scorching sun and stifling haze. The humid hell that extended to much of the East Coast had health officials urging people to adopt sluggish tendencies and find a nice, cool place to chill out. In Quebec, deep January or February chill might require 36,000 megawatts of power but during the heat wave Quebec will use roughly 22,000MW. Temperatures peaked at 41.1 degrees in Frederick, Maryland, about 50 km north of Washington, DC, and reached 39.4 degrees in New York City. High demand for air conditioners caused power outages in New York City and Washington. Thousands of buildings in Manhattan Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island lost electricity. In New York, a transformer on Staten Island could not handle the demands, symbolic of a power infrastructure that is in need of updating nationwide. NYISO reported demand by late afternoon had reached 33,452 megawatts statewide, just short of the 33,939-megawatt record set in August 2006…President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has agreed to back nearly $2 billion in loans to two solar power companies for projects in Arizona, Colorado and Indiana. The loan guarantees will go to two firms: Spanish solar firm Abengoa Solar Inc. will receive a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to construct a 280 megawatt concentrating solar power facility in Solana, Arizona, while Colorado-based solar start-up Abound Solar will receive a $400 million guarantee to finance factory expansions in Colorado and Indiana…General Electric Co. is taking a majority stake in eleven wind farms in Idaho, a project worth almost $500 million according Exergy Development Group, who is selling the assets to General Electric Co.
Keephills#2 Back Online; Sundance#6 Offline; Eastern Heat Taxing Power Prices
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