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01Mar

A Warning Not to be Ignored

How valuable is a balanced, diverse mix of energy sources? Just ask the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), the grid operator that manages the electricity grid for much of the U.S. Midwest and parts of Canada. When the polar vortex hammered the Midwest at the end of January, the grid weathered the storm, but it […]
  • On March 1, 2019
  • coal, electricity grid, Germany, Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Minnesota, polar vortex, renewable energy, wind, World Energy Council
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22Feb

Building a Better Future from West Virginia to India

The world’s population is racing towards 10 billion by 2050. It’s an astounding number that has huge implications for global energy use but also for material needs. As populations grow, urbanization is growing as well. A higher and higher percentage of us are living in cities. The United Nations reported last year that 55 percent […]
  • On February 22, 2019
  • Arch Coal, Asia, China, coal, coking coal, India, Jude Clemente, Leer South, metallurgical coal, steel, United Nations, urbanization, West Virginia, World Bank
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14Feb

Evaluating Grid Reliability Requires Examining What’s to Come, Not What’s Been

It was the study energy wonks were sure was going to be a deal maker or breaker in the ongoing debate about fuel-secure sources of generation and the reliability and resilience of the grid. It turns out, the study is neither of those things. E&E News obtained the unpublished draft study, and, if anything, it […]
  • On February 14, 2019
  • baseload power, coal-fired power plants, electricity grid, fuel diversity, IHS Markit, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
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05Feb

A Warning to Proceed with Caution

What’s the cost of inaction to protect the fuel diversity of our grid? New York offers a hint. The Empire State may have only two coal-fired power plants remaining, but a new rule aimed at effectively eliminating coal power from the state’s grid by 2020 is already jolting markets. As Bloomberg reported, the rule hasn’t […]
  • On February 5, 2019
  • all-of-the-above, baseload power, coal, Duke Energy Corporation, Exelon Corporation, FirstEnergy Corporation, HELE technology, Multiple Intervenors, New York, New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), PJM Interconnection, Public Service Enterprise Group, Rod Kuckro
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30Jan

The German Misstep

Strong voter support for an all-of-the-above energy strategy in the U.S. – as identified in recent Morning Consult polling – is undoubtedly informed by experience. Just ask Xcel Energy customers dealing with record subzero temperatures this week who were asked to turn their thermostats down to 55 degrees to prevent widespread natural gas outages in the area. […]
  • On January 30, 2019
  • coal, Dietar Woidke, Energiewende, Germany, Johan Rockstrom, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, renewable energy, Xcel Energy
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24Jan

Balancing the Grid and Reducing Emissions with Advanced Coal Technology

Preserving the fuel diversity and affordability of our power supply while also reducing emissions is not only smart energy policy, it’s a tall order. It’s a challenge not unlike walking a tight rope, and current trends suggest we are losing our balance. The loss of fuel-secure baseload sources of power and our growing overreliance on […]
  • On January 24, 2019
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, coal, HELE technology, technology, Wood Mackenzie, World Coal Association
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16Jan

Better for Consumers? Hardly.

Baseload power plant retirements continue at an alarming pace. Plant operators retired 14,000 megawatts of coal generation in 2018, enough generating capacity to power about 10 million homes. Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. coal fleet has been forced into early retirement since 2010 and a third of the commercial U.S. nuclear fleet is in […]
  • On January 16, 2019
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, coal, HELE technology, technology, Wood Mackenzie, World Coal Association
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09Jan

Reversing the Anti-Coal Supertanker

If anyone has ever told you, “it’s like turning a supertanker,” you know the task at hand isn’t going to be easy. The analogy beautifully captures the immense challenge of reversing momentum. For all the energy required to get that proverbial supertanker moving, it can be doubly difficult and slow to change its course. Reversing […]
  • On January 9, 2019
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, coal, HELE technology, technology, Wood Mackenzie, World Coal Association
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04Jan

The Ongoing Struggle to Correct the Damage of Government Overreach

It wasn’t all that long ago that coal fueled more than half of the nation’s electricity generation. Coal’s retreat from that position hasn’t come by accident, nor has it come without consequences. While some pundits have pointed to the marketplace as the cause of coal’s slide, that’s a convenient tale that barely hints at the […]
  • On January 4, 2019
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, coal, HELE technology, technology, Wood Mackenzie, World Coal Association
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20Dec

Technology, Not Taxes

Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming had an op-ed this week in The New York Times where he called for leaning on technology, not carbon taxes, to cut emissions. His argument is grounded in reality – the reality that people both here and abroad don’t want to want to be taxed to use affordable, reliable energy […]
  • On December 20, 2018
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, coal, HELE technology, technology, Wood Mackenzie, World Coal Association
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