A Roll of the Dice

Jerry Jones, the enigmatic, billionaire, oil-man owner of the Dallas Cowboys just made a big bet on the future of natural gas. His gamble is a timely reminder that low prices and cheap energy don’t tend to stay that way. Predicting just when natural gas prices rise is anyone’s guess, but Jerry is rolling the […]

On June 12, 2019
American Chemistry Council, baseload power, coal, IHS Markit, Jerry Jones, natural gas, nuclear, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

14Feb

Evaluating Grid Reliability Requires Examining What’s to Come, Not What’s Been

It was the study energy wonks were sure was going to be a deal maker or breaker in the ongoing debate about fuel-secure sources of generation and the reliability and resilience of the grid. It turns out, the study is neither of those things. E&E News obtained the unpublished draft study, and, if anything, it […]

On February 14, 2019
baseload power, coal-fired power plants, electricity grid, fuel diversity, IHS Markit, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)