Southern Company said recently that its system loads hit its highest summer peak in eight years on Aug. 13.
The Aug. 13 peak marked the highest summer peak since August 2011 and the highest annual peak since the winter of 2015.
The company noted that its system continued to operate reliably while reducing carbon emissions by more than a third at the peak as compared to the strongest demand of 2007. Increased generation from natural gas and renewables are the main drivers of the reduction in carbon emissions, the company said.
“Our peak-season system EFOR (equivalent forced outage rate) performance of 0.95 percent demonstrates the incredible effort by our teams to balance reliability and cost,” Stan Connally, executive vice president of Southern Company Operations, said. “I am pleased that we are delivering excellent reliability while continuing to reduce costs across our fleet and identify ways to be more efficient.”
Southern Company is targeting low- to no-carbon operations by 2050.
The power industry and policymakers should consider implementing several recommendations now to meet expected supply shortfalls prior to the start…
Looking to cut down on the difficult nature of the work for humans and improve consistency of the outcome, the…
Toledo Edison this month began a massive streetlight conversion project through Sylvania, Ohio, installing the first of 1,650 LED replacements.…
Peter Sena III has been named the new chairman and CEO of Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of the Southern Company.…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is con structing a research and development (R&D) facility to…
A program that provides a 10 or 20-percentage point boost to the investment tax credit for qualified solar or wind…
This website uses cookies.