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15Sep

CEPP: Accelerating the Grid Reliability Crisis

Senator Joe Manchin made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows this past weekend, making it clear he can’t get behind House Democrats’ proposed Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), which would throw $150 billion at utilities to accelerate the pivot to renewable energy. Manchin told Chuck Todd, the plan “makes no sense at all.” He […]
  • On September 15, 2021
  • American Electric Power, Amos Hochstein, California, Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), Europe, Financial Times, grid reliability, Joe Manchin, natural gas, Texas, United Kingdom, Wall Street Journal
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01Sep

Reshaping the U.S. Electricity Mix by 2030 is Full of Potential Pitfalls – Just ask European Consumers

Proposing to upend the nation’s electricity mix and do it at warp speed is policy that at the very least deserves transparent discussion and requires extensive planning. Tucked into the reconciliation package is just such a proposal. The Clean Electricity Payment Program will throw vast sums at utilities to transform their generating fleets and do […]
  • On September 1, 2021
  • Angela Merkel, Bloomberg, California, Clean Electricity Payment Program, electricity prices, Energiewende, energy transition, Europe, Germany, grid reliability, Harald Herzig, Mainova, Spain, Texas, United Kingdom, Wall Street Journal
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25Aug

Strong Majority of Americans Want a Plan to Preserve Grid Reliability

In the wake of headline-grabbing blackouts in California and Texas and all-too-regular electricity conservation warnings in states across the country, seventy-two percent of Americans are now concerned that the speed of the transition to variable sources of power is coming at the cost of grid reliability, according to new polling from Morning Consult. These concerns […]
  • On August 25, 2021
  • California, cyber security, grid reliability, ISO New England, Jim Robb, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Morning Consult, National Mining Association (NMA), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), polling, Rich Nolan, Texas
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28Jul

Just How Unreliable Can the Grid Become?

As the inclusion of a potential clean electricity standard continues to be linked to infrastructure talks, context is important. The United States is already living on the grid reliability edge and, without thoughtful planning, could be poised to lunge towards the chasm. With the energy transition accelerating, and proposed timelines becoming shorter, just how much […]
  • On July 28, 2021
  • California, emissions, fuel diversity, grid reliability, infrastructure, Texas, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)
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23Jun

The Reliability Crisis is a Market Failure

How is that both California and Texas – the two wealthiest states in the wealthiest nation on earth – can’t seem to keep the power on? Or, how is that electricity reliability in the United States, in the 21st century, seems to suddenly be getting worse when it should be getting better? According to two members […]
  • On June 23, 2021
  • Bernard McNamee, California, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, James Danly, Jim Robb, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), NRG Energy, PJM Interconnection, RealClearEnergy, Texas
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16Jun

The Texas Grid is Failing Again

Summer hasn’t even officially started but the Texas grid is already facing another electricity reliability crisis. Warning of potentially inadequate generating capacity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is once again begging Texans to reduce electricity use. Texans have every right to worry that the grid may not hold up this summer. This week’s […]
  • On June 16, 2021
  • California, dispatchable capacity, Ed Hirs, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Greg Abbott, grid reliability, Texas, University of Houston, Wall Street Journal
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26May

The Grid Reliability Warnings Keep Coming

Back in the summer of 2019, Jim Robb, the president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), said that when most engineers look at the Texas grid, they conclude that “there’s no way in hell they can keep the lights on. And yet they do.” Robb, speaking to the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
  • On May 26, 2021
  • California, Colonial Pipeline, fuel diversity, fuel security, infrastructure, Jim Robb, New England, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Texas, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)
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19May

Here Come the Blackouts

We now know that the rolling blackouts that gripped California last summer weren’t an anomaly. They were, in fact, a preview of a reliability crisis that has grown to stretch across the Western grid. The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) is warning that the West simply doesn’t have enough power supply to meet a region-wide […]
  • On May 19, 2021
  • Bloomberg, California, grid reliability, JP McMahon, Loretta Lynch, Mike Florio, Politico, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), Wood Mackenzie
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03Mar

Dispatchable Fuel Diversity is Invaluable 

Does fuel diversity matter? Or, to put a finer point on it, does dispatchable fuel diversity matter? If February taught us anything, the answer is a resounding yes. Along with the Texas grid disaster, there were two neighboring grids pushed to the brink by the same unrelenting cold but both fared much better. The Southwest […]
  • On March 3, 2021
  • California, fuel diversity, International Energy Agency (IEA), Kevin Stitt, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Morning Consult, natural gas, polling, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), Texas, Wall Street Journal
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24Feb

The Texas Grid Crisis is a National Crisis

Think the Texas electricity crisis can’t happen where you live? Think again. Up and down the country, electricity markets – with very different designs – have fielded warnings that the right storm, with the right conditions could cause the same chaos or worse. Much of the blame in Texas has fallen on the Electric Reliability […]
  • On February 24, 2021
  • baseload power, Bud Weinstein, California, Dallas Morning News, Ed Hirs, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), grid reliability, ISO New England, James Danly, North American Reliability Corporation, PJM Interconnection, Rich Nolan, Texas, The Houston Chronicle
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