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30Dec

2024 in Review

Happy almost new year! Before we turn the page on 2024, it’s worth looking back on the stories and major developments that shaped – even reshaped – the energy landscape over the past 12 months. Years of warnings about rapidly eroding grid reliability collided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA’s) regulatory agenda and the […]
  • On December 30, 2024
  • ABC News, Biden Administration, Bloomberg, California, CBS News, CPP 2.0, Donald Trump, electricity prices, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Grid Strategies, International Energy Agency (IEA), Javier Blas, Jim Robb, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), National Mining Association (NMA), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, Rich Nolan, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal
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07Aug

Soaring Costs with Little to Show

With all the noise surrounding the energy transition, sometimes it’s hard to grasp what’s truly happening, or not happening at all. Is the shift to renewable power and the infrastructure to support it moving smoothly? Or is it proving far more challenging and costly than advocates want to admit? What’s happening in California, New York […]
  • On August 7, 2024
  • California, electricity prices, energy transition, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Renewable Energy Lab, New York, transmission lines, Wall Street Journal
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26Apr

And the Winner is… 

If anyone’s taking nominations for misleading reports, we have a leading contender: a recent report that argues that rising electricity prices in West Virginia are the result of the state’s reliance on coal power, going as far to imply that coal is an economic burden on the state. The report is built on the fact […]
  • On April 26, 2023
  • California, electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New England, West Virginia, West Virginia University Bureau for Business and Economic Research
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19Apr

EV Ambitions Built on Imploding Grid Reliability

The Biden administration seems perpetually optimistic, and rarely realistic. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rolled out new tailpipe emission standards that are going to force a lightning-quick pivot to electric vehicles (EVs). By 2032, EPA hopes that 67% of new car sales are zero-emission. Getting there is going to be colossally challenging. It’s […]
  • On April 19, 2023
  • California, electric vehicles, electricity grid, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), grid reliability, infrastructure, National Renewable Energy Lab, Norway, PJM Interconnection, Statnett, The Washington Post, transmission lines
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08Feb

The Country Needs Coal Too Mr. President

Call it an admission of pragmatism. While talking to the nation’s energy future last night during the State of the Union address, President Biden went off script and admitted that “we’re still going to need oil and gas for a while.” It was a statement of fact even if it made climate hawks grimace. What […]
  • On February 8, 2023
  • California, electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Gavin Newsom, Joe Biden, Michael Regan, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), natural gas, New England, Politico, Public Citizen, The Hill, Tyson Slocum
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01Feb

New Study Underscores Threat to the Nation’s Grid Reliability

The latest iteration of a headline-grabbing study, “The Coal Cost Crossover” – which claims the entirety of the existing coal fleet is less economic than new renewable projects – is exactly the type of academic clickbait driving the nation’s reckless approach to the energy transition. Like previous versions, this iteration of the report once again […]
  • On February 1, 2023
  • "The Coal Cost Crossover", Bloomberg, California, Cheryl LaFleur, electricity prices, employment, Energy Futures Initiative, Ernest Moniz, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, John Moura, New England, North America's Building Trades Unions, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), permitting, renewable energy, Sean McGarvey, Sierra Club, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, United Kingdom, Vermont, West Virginia University Bureau for Business and Economic Research
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07Sep

Learn from California’s Self-Imposed Crisis

Will California – the global tech capital – plunge into darkness? Broiling heat has once again pushed California’s shaky grid to the limit. Record power demand has threatened to eclipse available supply with utilities, the grid operator and the governor all pleading for citizens and businesses to curb demand to keep rolling blackouts at bay. Just […]
  • On September 7, 2022
  • battery storage, California, grid reliability, Jim Robb, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Pacific Gas and Electric, Public Utilities Fortnightly, renewable energy, solar, The Sacramento Bee
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15Jun

The Nation Braces for Blackouts

Warnings of blackouts this summer are quickly becoming a dangerous reality for much of the country In the Midwest, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which manages the region’s grid, issued a warning of tight capacity conditions on June 13 as the grid struggles to keep up with soaring demand from a heatwave. Utilities were […]
  • On June 15, 2022
  • baseload power, blackouts, California, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Europe, grid reliability, Michael Regan, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Texas, Utilities District of Western Indiana (UDWI)
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18May

As Natural Gas Prices Soar, a Plea for Energy Pragmatism

In the wake of stunning blackouts in California in August of 2020, California Assemblyman Jim Patterson said, “today we have a grid that is increasingly expensive, unreliable and unavailable when the people of California need it the most.” What Mr. Patterson didn’t know at the time is that his remark would soon describe nearly the […]
  • On May 18, 2022
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch, California, electricity grid, electricity prices, Francisco Blanch, grid reliability, ISO New England, Jim Patterson, natural gas, PJM Interconnection, Politico, polling
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23Feb

The Reliability Crisis Reaches a New Gear

A new consensus is building that electricity grid reliability problems are in fact very real and very serious. That may not be news to anyone who has been paying attention. There have been countless warnings that something is very wrong but, for years, many of the warnings and some of the loudest voices making them […]
  • On February 23, 2022
  • California, California ISO, Cheryl LaFleur, Curt Morgan, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), energy transition, grid reliability, ISO New England, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), National Mining Association (NMA), New England, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), NYISO, Rich Nolan, Texas, transmission lines, Vistra Corp., Wall Street Journal
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