ISO-NE Report Shows Solar Capacity Rising Rapidly

April 01, 2016

A draft assessment of the Northeast power situation shows slow load growth and rapidly rising solar capacity coming out of one of the warmest winters in the region’s history. In a preliminary report from ISO-New England, the grid operator said the 2015-16 winter was the second mildest since 1960, and the only true cold weather occurred across a three-day stretch in mid-February. Actual winter peak was 19,524 MW. Compared to 2014, weather-normalized energy use was down 1.1 percent, but up 0.5 percent when forward capacity market passive demand resources were factored in. Solar energy capacity will reach 3,214 MW in 2025, an increase of roughly 30 percent above last year’s ISO-NE estimates.

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