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FERC on Thursday approved PowerTransitions' acquisition of the 1,242-MW Roseton gas- and oil-fired plant in New York from a Castleton Commodities International subsidiary, and TransAlta Holding's roughly $1 billion purchase of two gas-fired plants totaling 319 MW in Colorado from Kindle Energy subsidiaries. Both deals are expected to close by year-end.
美国土地管理局(BLM)6月在新墨西哥州举行的地热租赁拍卖创下多项纪录:47个地块以平均每英亩107美元成交,总金额超过1650万美元,为BLM历史上第二高拍卖收入;其中最高出价达每英亩701美元,刷新联邦纪录。分析机构Enverus Intelligence Research指出,竞标热度上升与电力需求增长及输电基础设施可达性密切相关,并预计后续犹他州、内华达州和爱达荷州的拍卖将延续这一趋势。
Texas grid operator ERCOT saw a new unofficial all-time peak demand on July 22, but a market report from Ascend Analytics warns that supply constraints—including gas turbine shortages and interconnection bottlenecks—will limit growth to 120 GW by 2030, far below ERCOT's own forecasts. The report highlights challenges in financing new dispatchable generation and storage under the energy-only market.