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Too cold for Texas? Electricity demand and capacity in ERCOT during cold-snap of Feb '21
Ydo Wexler, Geert Scholma | February 17, 2021The last several days were some of the coldest on record in Texas, and with power out for a quarter of households in the state at times, it brought back memories from a decade ago, when a similar thing occurred for similar reasons. Now, just like in 2011, the extreme cold led to a combination of a spike in electricity load demand and a sharp decrease in capacity, which forced ERCOT to implement rolling blackouts.
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Employee Spotlight: Dr. Mark Shipham
The Amperon Team | November 6, 2020An intro to Dr. Mark Shipham, Amperon’s Chief Meteorologist.
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2020 4CP Recap
Elliott Chorn | October 13, 2020Looking back at our 4CP performance in ERCOT for 2020
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Amperon 4CP – June 2020 Recap
Elliott Chorn | July 8, 2020Amperon released our Four Coincident Peak (4CP) alert product entering June 2020 and the timing could not have been better.
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Better Google Cloud Build notifications in Slack
Steve Gattuso | June 14, 2020Building better chatops by replacing Google Cloud Build's out-of-the-box Slack notification with something a bit more informative.
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COVID-19 Impact on Global Energy Markets
Geert Scholma | April 14, 2020As of April 13th, 2020, about a third of the worldwide population currently lives in some form of quarantine or curfew. Many shops have been closed, as well as bars, restaurants, hotels, theatres, schools, offices, museums, libraries, and attractions. This has had a significant attenuating impact on electricity demand, which has been the topic of several articles. The most common type of analysis that has been performed compares historical load ratios either week over week or year over year. However, there are many more factors that need to be taken into account to get an accurate estimation for the impact of lockdowns on regional electricity demand.
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Introducing Amperon
Abe Stanway | July 25, 2018A new data intelligence company building mission-critical tools for energy companies.