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30Oct

Inheriting an Electricity Affordability Crisis

In March of this year, federal data revealed the rise in electricity prices was far outpacing general inflation. With electricity demand beginning to soar from electrification, and most notably the data center and AI revolution, that trend is only poised to accelerate. According to new analysis from a leading energy consultancy, utilities are now facing […]
  • On October 30, 2024
  • Aaron Denman, Bain & Company, CBS News, Data centers, electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), power demand, Wall Street Journal, Wood Mackenzie
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23Oct

The Numbers Aren’t Adding Up

At the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s annual Reliability Technical Conference on Oct. 16, the nation’s top grid reliability expert sounded like a doctor delivering grim news. Despite the many warnings, despite countless reports and congressional testimony, the reliability of the nation’s grid is going from bad to worse. North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) CEO Jim Robb […]
  • On October 23, 2024
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Jim Robb, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), power demand, Wood Mackenzie
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16Oct

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat

Every month, projections on just how much and how fast U.S. electricity demand is growing keep rising. As those projections soar, the arithmetic of the energy transition is being rewritten in real time. There’s the unforgettable line in Jaws, when the chief of police, Martin Brody, sees the shark for the first time. Stunned, he […]
  • On October 16, 2024
  • American Electric Power (AEP), Bloomberg Intelligence, Data centers, energy transition, Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency (IEA), John Ketchum, NextEra Energy Inc., OpenAI, PJM Interconnection, power demand
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09Oct

Ukrainian Steel Made from Appalachian Coal

Too often lost in debate about the nation’s energy future is the supreme importance of energy security and the vital role of American energy production to both America and our allies. In the months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Europe’s dash to make a break from Russian energy, it was American coal and natural […]
  • On October 9, 2024
  • coal exports, metallurgical coal, steel, Ukraine
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02Oct

PJM Can’t Get New Capacity Online

At the precise moment power demand is exploding, PJM, the operator of the nation’s largest grid, is struggling to get new capacity online. In fact, the problem is doubly difficult. At the exact time PJM desperately needs new capacity additions to surge, they’re stalled, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making matters worse […]
  • On October 2, 2024
  • energy transition, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Mark Christie, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Paul McGlynn, PJM Interconnection
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18Sep

Grid Operators Tell the Court: EPA’s Rule is a Dire Threat to Reliability

The nation’s grid operators warned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the then proposed so-called Clean Power Plan 2.0 was a direct and alarming threat to grid reliability. Those concerns were shrugged off as EPA pushed forward and finalized an unworkable and unlawful rule. Now, the grid operators are getting involved in the legal […]
  • On September 18, 2024
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, Clean Power Plan 2.0, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), grid reliability, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), PJM Interconnection, plant retirements, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), technology
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11Sep

Congrats on… the Energy Poverty

In October, Britain will close its last coal plant marking the culmination of a decade-long policy that has proven to be a catastrophe for British consumers. While some headlines have celebrated Britain’s phaseout, the cost – still to be fully tallied – has been extraordinary. If anything, Britain’s energy policies have become textbook case studies […]
  • On September 11, 2024
  • Ed Miliband, electricity prices, Ofgem, plant retirements, United Kingdom
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04Sep

Dispatchable Power Remains Irreplaceable

On August 26, amidst broiling heat across the Midwest, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) issued a maximum generation event with power demand soaring to 122 gigawatts (GW). MISO – with service territory stretching from Louisiana up through Minnesota – needed every megawatt of power it could generate and then some. MISO even needed to […]
  • On September 4, 2024
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Mark Christie, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), PJM Interconnection
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28Aug

Modeling the Impossible

One of the common refrains from renewable boosters or even the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is that the U.S. now has the technology needed to rapidly transform our electricity mix and maintain affordable, reliable power. In other words, the renewable technology available today can replace the dispatchable power currently provided by the nation’s coal, […]
  • On August 28, 2024
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ISO New England, New England, New York, NYISO, renewable energy, technology
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21Aug

FERC’s Christie: “Such an Unrealistic Standard”

On July 12, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) demanding information on how FERC is preparing for the impacts of the so-called Clean Power Plan 2.0 and what role the Commission […]
  • On August 21, 2024
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Clean Power Plan 2.0, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Jeff Duncan, Mark Christie, Supreme Court
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