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Department of Energy (DOE)

25Jun

Will the Power Keep Flowing?

What a week for congressional attention on grid reliability. A brutal heatwave is pushing the supply of power to its very limit in grids stretching across much of the country. Outages have already hit parts of New York City, while the PJM Interconnection and Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) grids have both issued “maximum generation […]
  • On June 25, 2025
  • coal, Data centers, Department of Energy (DOE), House Energy and Commerce committee, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), PJM Interconnection, wind power
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11Jun

Aligning Energy and Regulatory Policy with the AI Moment

It has become hard to overstate the impact AI and data centers are having on the power sector. This is an industrial revolution on an extraordinary scale. At a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) conference on grid reliability last week, regulators and grid operators once again sounded the alarm over the challenges they collectively face […]
  • On June 11, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), blackouts, Data centers, Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, power demand, Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
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28May

A Grid Emergency in MISO

Well, that didn’t take long. Before the boiling heat of summer has even officially arrived, the lights went out in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region. More than 100,000 customers in and around New Orleans went without power for most of the day on Sunday when MISO was forced to order rotating outages in […]
  • On May 28, 2025
  • blackouts, Chris Wright, Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, ICF International, John Bear, Mark Christie, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, plant retirements
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12Feb

Choosing Energy Insecurity

Europe is once again reaping the rewards of its energy policy failures. Natural gas prices are surging, jumping 30 percent in the past two months to reach a two-year high. Cold, windless weather has meant rapidly depleting gas storage and rising prices. For the lucky few, dispatchable fuel diversity is helping temper price spikes. In […]
  • On February 12, 2025
  • Chris Wright, Department of Energy (DOE), dunkelflaute, Europe, Germany, Poland, Wall Street Journal
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01May

The Biden-EPA’s Alternate Reality

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to brush aside deep alarm over the grid reliability impacts of its new blitz of power plant rules, evidence is rapidly mounting that the nation’s supply of electricity is already in deep, deep trouble. In the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) market, which covers much of the […]
  • On May 1, 2024
  • Department of Energy (DOE), electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Paul McGlynn, PJM Interconnection, transmission lines
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30Jan

Failure to Launch

The SunZia transmission line has become emblematic of the challenges of delivering the nation’s energy future. The project – a $10 billion effort essential to moving wind generation across several states – had been stuck in legal limbo and permitting purgatory for 17 years until it was finally approved last year. But now several Tribes […]
  • On January 30, 2024
  • ClearView Energy Partners LLC, Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, permitting, SunZia project, transmission lines, Wall Street Journal, wind
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18May

A Plan to Break the Grid

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out its sweeping new climate rule last week. In the plan’s crosshairs is the generating capacity that meets 60% of the nation’s power. Should the EPA get its way, today’s coal and gas fleets will be largely disassembled nearly overnight, posing a remarkable threat to a grid already […]
  • On May 18, 2023
  • carbon capture utilization and storage, Clean Air Act, Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Jennifer Wilcox, John Moura, Michael Regan, National Mining Association (NMA), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Politico, Rich Nolan, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Willie Phillips
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25May

Soaring Energy Prices are Swallowing Economic Recovery

Contrasting the painful immediacy of an oil price shock to that from electricity prices, Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas wrote, “akin to a rising tide, it is slow but relentless and then, surprise, you are overwhelmed.” Blas penned that description about the crushing electricity costs about to overwhelm Europe, but the metaphor neatly describes the electricity crisis […]
  • On May 25, 2022
  • Bloomberg, Department of Energy (DOE), electricity prices, energy transition, Europe, Javier Blas, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), United Kingdom
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28Apr

The Carbon Capture Moonshot

For all of the momentum building towards tackling the climate challenge, a sobering reality remains: according to the International Energy Agency, fully half of the key technologies needed to produce globally effective solutions need significant support to bring to full maturity and market use. Or as Bill Gates quipped last week, “using today’s technology, it […]
  • On April 28, 2021
  • Bill Gates, carbon capture utilization and storage, David Livingston, David Turk, Department of Energy (DOE), E&E News, International Energy Agency (IEA), Jennifer Granholm, John Kerry, Rhodium Group, technology
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25Nov

Consol Energy Wants to Build an Advanced, Carbon Capture-Equipped Coal Plant. It’s Exactly What U.S. Energy Leadership Demands.

A recent presidential candidate confidently declared that American ingenuity, directed at advanced coal technology, could produce essential breakthroughs. He said, “This is America. We figured out how to put a man on the moon in 10 years. You can’t tell me we can’t figure out how to burn coal that we mine right here in […]
  • On November 25, 2020
  • Asia, Barack Obama, carbon capture utilization and storage, Coal FIRST, Consol Energy, Department of Energy (DOE), Joe Biden
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