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NMA Highlights Alarming Loss of Fuel-Secure Electricity Resources and Potential Remedy in Comments to FERC

The design of the nation’s largest wholesale electricity market is contributing to the loss of fuel-secure electricity resources, while encouraging reliance on pipeline-dependent and intermittent resources, the National Mining Association (NMA) said in comments submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) earlier today. NMA’s comments support a properly expanded Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) […]

A Playbook on What Not to Do

The German Energiewende, or energy transition, was supposed to stir like a composition from Bach or Beethoven. Instead, it sounds like a fork stuck in a garbage disposal. When the Germans embarked on their grand pivot to renewable sources of power, they knew the effort was going to be costly but did they expect the […]

Protecting our Electric Grid

Via The Hill: As the federal government considers the use of national security measures to protect our nuclear and coal-powered electric generation plants, we must be ready to enact a comprehensive strategy to protect the entire electric grid. The electric grid is the very backbone of our national infrastructure and must be made stronger, harder […]

Can America’s Power Grid Support Millions of Electric Cars?

Via The Gazette: There’s little doubt that a global technology revolution is underway. And the sweep of change over the past decade alone has been stunning. Electric cars and smart phones are proving that the world has gone high-tech. Many analysts now believe that a “deep electrification” of the U.S. economy is coming, too, thanks […]

Don’t Overlook the Value of Fuel Diversity

British environmentalists are in a tizzy. Despite heavy-handed government efforts to push coal off the UK’s grid, it is regaining market share and bringing much-needed relief to consumers who have dealt with household electricity costs 74 percent higher than here in the U.S. Britain’s pivot away from coal to wind, solar and natural gas has […]

Analysts Expect Us Coal Exports to Continue Surging In 2018

Via The Daily Caller: U.S. coal exports are expected to surge 10 percent in the next year, according to new forecasts by the Energy Department’s statistics arm. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that while coal production will fall one percent in 2018, exports will surge 10 percent above 2017. Coal exports were up 32 percent […]

California’s Regressive Lab Experiment

Responsible governance is defined differently in California. Governor Jerry Brown has signed an executive order for the state to slash its overall emissions to zero by 2045 and then go negative, meaning that in 2046 the state will have to start pulling more emissions from the atmosphere than it puts in. As a compliment to […]

Letter: Stand Up for Coal-fired Plants

Via The Herald-Star: The U.S. produces about 1 billion tons of coal annually, a little less than 12 percent of the world supply. Coal generates about 40 percent of the electricity in the U.S., and nine out of 10 tons of coal in the U.S. are used to generate electricity. The U.S. has about 235-year […]