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20Apr

Price Spikes and Renewed Urgency to Maintain Fuel Optionality

On Monday, U.S. natural gas prices surged above $8 per million British thermal units, four times what they were before the pandemic, and a level not seen since 2008. With energy-driven inflation front-of-mind for voters and a deepening risk to the economy, the arrival of a painfully expensive new natural gas normal is only heightening […]
  • On April 20, 2022
  • electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), fuel diversity, Holman Jenkins, National Mining Association (NMA), natural gas, Rich Nolan, The Washington Examiner, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Wall Street Journal
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13Apr

The Consequence of Policy Conceived and Executed in a Vacuum

It would be difficult to find a country untouched by the global energy crisis. Here in the U.S. inflation has reached four-decade highs, driven in large part by skyrocketing energy prices. But some are managing it better than others, with the UK serving as a stark example of energy policy malpractice. The Brits have had […]
  • On April 13, 2022
  • Boris Johnson, electricity prices, fuel diversity, Morning Consult, National Mining Association (NMA), polling, renewable energy, United Kingdom, Wall Street Journal
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09Feb

The LNG Export Boom and a Check on Abundance

U.S. electricity demand is about to begin a steep climb, potentially doubling by 2050 on the back of the electric vehicle revolution. As that ascent begins, the U.S. is becoming the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG) just as the shale industry reckons with an end to the boom. As The Wall Street […]
  • On February 9, 2022
  • Asia, electricity prices, Europe, fuel diversity, Mexico, natural gas, Wall Street Journal
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26Jan

Europe’s Self-Made Energy Crisis

The European energy crisis is poised to go from very bad to unimaginably worse. While all eyes are on Ukraine and Russia, Europe’s energy woes are largely self-made, not due to outside forces. Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. In doing so it […]
  • On January 26, 2022
  • Bloomberg, electricity prices, Europe, fuel diversity, Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard University's Kennedy School, Germany, International Energy Agency (IEA), Meghan O'Sullivan, natural gas, plant retirements, Spain, United Kingdom, Wall Street Journal
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10Nov

Coal’s Importance is Clearer than Ever

It’s a good thing for American energy consumers that John Kerry doesn’t set domestic energy policy. While he believes the U.S. won’t be using coal by 2030, coal is proving just how essential it remains to the nation’s energy security as well as the reliability and the affordability of our energy supply Not only are […]
  • On November 10, 2021
  • China, electricity grid, electricity prices, Europe, fuel diversity, Helen Thompson, John Kerry, Mark Wolfe, natural gas, New England, Texas, The New York Times, U.S. Energy Information Administration, United Kingdom, University of Cambridge, University of Houston, Wall Street Journal
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18Aug

With Natural Gas Prices Soaring, Fuel Diversity Matters More than Ever

The era of cheap natural gas is officially over. According to Bloomberg, a decade of low natural gas prices – driven by surging production from the U.S., Australia and other nations – has finally been overtaken by demand from a recovering global economy. New supply, and the appetite of industry to provide it, isn’t keeping […]
  • On August 18, 2021
  • Asia, Bloomberg, electricity prices, Europe, fuel diversity, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), natural gas, PJM Interconnection, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), U.S. Energy Information Administration
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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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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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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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24Sep

Balance is Good! Dispatchable Fuel Diversity to the Rescue this Winter

Just imagine the outcry if there was an energy price spike during this unprecedented economic crisis. What if the price at the pump jumped to $5 per gallon or electricity prices suddenly jumped by 50%? With the nation already reeling and tens-of-millions of families barely staying afloat, spiking energy prices would likely be the straw […]
  • On September 24, 2020
  • Adam Waterous, affordability, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), EQT, fuel diversity, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), natural gas, Pioneer Natural Resources, PJM Interconnection, Scotiabank, Scott Sheffield, Steve Schlotterbeck, U.S. Energy Information Administration
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Recent fuel diversity Posts
  • Price Spikes and Renewed Urgency to Maintain Fuel Optionality
  • The Consequence of Policy Conceived and Executed in a Vacuum
  • The LNG Export Boom and a Check on Abundance
  • Europe’s Self-Made Energy Crisis
  • Coal’s Importance is Clearer than Ever
  • With Natural Gas Prices Soaring, Fuel Diversity Matters More than Ever
  • Just How Unreliable Can the Grid Become?
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