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grid reliability

01Mar

PJM Sounds the Capacity Shortfall Alarm

The nation’s largest electricity market is warning that it will face a steep capacity shortfall by the close of the decade as forced power plant retirements far outpace planned additions. Policy-driven closures of primarily coal plants threaten to leave PJM Interconnection – which serves 65 million Americans in 13 states and the District of Columbia […]
  • On March 1, 2023
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Michael Regan, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, winter
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15Feb

Does the EPA Care at All About Grid Reliability?

In July of last year, 26 House Republicans sent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan a letter asking for details on the agency’s efforts to assess the potential grid reliability threats posed by EPA’s regulatory agenda. Among other detailed questions, the letter asked what work had been done to coordinate with the Federal […]
  • On February 15, 2023
  • Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Jim Matheson, Michael Regan, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
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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, Ernie 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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18Jan

The U.S. Grid is Running on Empty

As we’re coming to learn, the bitter cold that forced rolling outages in parts of the Carolinas and Tennessee over Christmas also pushed neighboring grids right to the very edge. While the lights didn’t go out on the PJM, MISO and ERCOT grids, grid operators were at times left scrambling. And now, after-action reports are […]
  • On January 18, 2023
  • Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), grid reliability, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), natural gas, PJM Interconnection, Texas
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11Jan

The Grid Crisis is a Certainty

The U.S. electricity grid is undeniably in crisis. As rolling blackouts over Christmas demonstrated, no corner of the country is immune. Regions that were supposed to be safe from power shortfalls found themselves unable to keep the lights on. Tens-of-millions of other ratepayers got the unexpected present of emergency alerts asking them to dial back […]
  • On January 11, 2023
  • electricity grid, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), grid reliability, John Moura, Michael Regan, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Tennessee Valley Authority
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22Dec

A Year in Review

The year is coming to a close, but before we look forward to 2023 it’s worth looking back on the stories and themes that shaped the energy conversation in 2022 and coal’s role in it. An ongoing global energy crisis continues to upend markets and trade flows. Coal – so often the recipient of premature […]
  • On December 22, 2022
  • China, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Europe, fuel diversity, grid reliability, International Energy Agency (IEA), polling, Railroads, Wall Street Journal
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14Dec

American Manufacturers Warn Against Coal Retirements

U.S. natural gas prices have tripled in a year, and promises of its abundance are now being replaced by growing concerns of scarcity as demand outpaces interstate pipeline capacity. Supply chokepoints and regional price premiums are emerging across the country and it’s a problem poised to get far worse as more essential coal generating capacity […]
  • On December 14, 2022
  • electricity prices, grid reliability, Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), infrastructure, natural gas, renewable energy
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30Nov

The Grid Reliability Crisis Keeps Getting Worse

The nation’s electricity grid regulators at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) must be exasperated. The reliability of the grid is rapidly eroding, driven to the edge by a mismanaged and haphazard energy transition, and they’re doing their best to urgently warn anyone who will listen that the nation desperately needs a policy reset […]
  • On November 30, 2022
  • Bloomberg, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Jim Matheson, Jim Robb, John Moura, Mark Christie, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), polling, Public Utilities Fortnightly
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07Nov

The President Doubles Down on Bad Policy

When President Biden boasted last week about closing coal plants all across the country, he meant it. The White House has already begun spinning and clarifying his remarks, but the President knew what he was saying because there’s a plan to do it. Even as electricity and natural gas bills soar – up a startling 16% […]
  • On November 7, 2022
  • Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., Bloomberg, Curt Morgan, David Tudor, electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, James Danly, Jim Robb, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, National Mining Association (NMA), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Politico, Public Utilities Fortnightly, Rich Nolan, S&P Global, Vistra Corp., Wall Street Journal
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26Oct

Regulatory Intransigence

What changes over the course of four years? Not much if you compare President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to its predecessor from the Obama era. Team Biden came into office determined to pick up right where the Obama EPA had left off, hellbent on using every tool available to dismantle the domestic coal fleet. […]
  • On October 26, 2022
  • Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., clean power plan, Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), David Tudor, E&E News, electricity prices, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), grid reliability, Joe Biden, John Moura, Michael Regan, natural gas, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
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  • PJM Sounds the Capacity Shortfall Alarm
  • Does the EPA Care at All About Grid Reliability?
  • New Study Underscores Threat to the Nation’s Grid Reliability
  • The U.S. Grid is Running on Empty
  • The Grid Crisis is a Certainty
  • A Year in Review
  • American Manufacturers Warn Against Coal Retirements
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