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Demand Destruction

This May, through noon May 19, the highest hourly demand for electricity in the continental U.S. was 470.8 thousand megawatt-hours. That highest hourly demand came in hour nineteen Eastern Time on the fourth of May, the same day that the highest daily demand took place this month, at 9.6 million megawatt-hours.

Notably, this highest hourly demand was 7.6 percent less than the highest hourly demand during the same time period of last May, in 2019. And the highest daily demand was 8.3 percent less this May as compared to last May.

Fortnightly Under Forty: Lisa Dailey

Northfork Elec. Coop.

“We’ve formed an LLC with another co-op in Southwest Oklahoma called NuEra Energy Services to look at ways of capturing non-traditional revenue, doing some shared services.”
Byline: 

Lisa Dailey

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Fortnightly Under Forty: Sean Meredith

Entergy

“That team is fully staffed, working through the restoration efforts in Mississippi, southern Arkansas, and northern Louisiana where we had severe weather. They’re doing a great job while maintaining all practices we put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Byline: 

Sean Meredith

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Fortnightly Under Forty: Delevane Diaz

Electric Power Research Institute

“Together we designed a model that best represented Mexico’s energy system. Then we worked with CFE on exploring issues such as Mexico’s clean energy policy of fifty percent renewable generation by 2050.”
Byline: 

Delevane Diaz

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