24Aug

Europe’s Energy Crisis Underscores the Need for Fuel Diversity

The energy crisis in Europe keeps getting worse. Months of warnings are now becoming grim reality. European power prices are now equivalent to more than $1,000 per barrel of oil. The price of natural gas is 13 times its normal seasonal price. As winter draws nearer, so does the pain of crushing energy costs. Britain […]
24Aug

The Inflation Reduction Act Could Push Power Grid Reliability Into a Tailspin

Via RealClearEnergy: Marketed by its champions as the answer to America’s economic woes and energy-driven inflation, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is anything but. Its market destabilizing subsidies, additional taxes and support for further regulatory overreach could devastate the nation’s remaining coal fleet and consequently the reliability and affordability of the nation’s supply of power. […]
19Aug

Inflation Reduction Act could threaten U.S. power systems

Via The Washington Times: From California to Texas to New England, America’s power grid reliability is in alarming shape. And there’s a common thread: The nation is taking apart its existing energy infrastructure far faster than it’s building reliable replacement generation. This is most apparent in the Democrats’ sweeping new climate and health care bill, […]
17Aug

Halting Federal Coal Leasing During a Global Energy Crisis

Last week, a federal judge made history – in a dreadful way – by reinstating an Obama-era moratorium on federal coal leasing. Setting aside the outrageous shattering of both judicial limits and established precedent, the meritless ruling comes at a remarkable time. The U.S. is facing an energy affordability crisis, a deepening grid reliability crisis, […]
10Aug

Global Coal Use is on the Rise  

While domestic energy policy continues to dominate headlines, it’s important policymakers don’t lose perspective on global energy reality. For all the talk of energy transition, the global story is one of energy addition where renewable sources of power are largely being added in addition to existing infrastructure and fuels. The world can’t pump enough oil, […]
04Aug

Supercharging the Reliability Crisis

For all of the focus on energy policy in Washington, attention to the unfolding grid reliability crisis remains alarmingly absent. In fact, some of the principal causes of the crisis are receiving fresh reinforcement while substantive efforts to address the forces weakening the nation’s supply of power have yet to materialize. Even as grid regulators […]
27Jul

Surging Natural Gas Prices Underscore the Need for Fuel Diversity

Consumers are finally getting some relief at the gas pump but the prices for natural gas and electricity are now soaring. As the economy treads water, fighting off recession, a new variant of energy-driven inflation is knocking at the door. With the U.S. now the world’s largest LNG exporter, and the U.S. gas market increasingly […]
25Jul

Coal Is at the Heart of Efforts Overseas to Keep the Lights On

Via The White Mountain Independent: We must stop pretending our nation’s coal power plants are unessential. The loss of coal generation is undermining our energy security, contributing to inflation and risking rolling blackouts. What’s happening is that we are dismantling essential generating capacity far faster than it is being replaced with reliable alternatives. This haphazard, […]
23Jul

U.S. Should Begin Exporting More Coal to European Nations

Via The Wheeling News-Register: Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine, U.S. coal shipments to Europe are playing a quiet yet critical role in keeping the lights on from Rome to Amsterdam. If the shipments continue through the winter — and are ramped to replace the loss of Russian fuel — they will save millions […]
13Jul

European Energy Independence with U.S. Coal

This week, Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, warned that the global energy crisis is likely to get worse before it gets better, adding the coming winter for Europe, “will be very, very difficult.” His remarks reflect the increasing likelihood that Russia will completely cut off the flow of its natural gas […]