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ISO New England

23Feb

The Reliability Crisis Reaches a New Gear

A new consensus is building that electricity grid reliability problems are in fact very real and very serious. That may not be news to anyone who has been paying attention. There have been countless warnings that something is very wrong but, for years, many of the warnings and some of the loudest voices making them […]
  • On February 23, 2022
  • California, California ISO, Cheryl LaFleur, Curt Morgan, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), energy transition, grid reliability, ISO New England, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), National Mining Association (NMA), New England, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), NYISO, Rich Nolan, Texas, transmission lines, Vistra Corp., Wall Street Journal
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02Feb

Power Grid Roulette

Another February storm has Texans wondering if they’re in for a repeat of the catastrophic grid failure of a year ago. While this storm isn’t expected to be nearly as severe, there’s an uneasy recognition from regulators and policymakers that given the right circumstances the Texas grid could go over the edge once again. Despite […]
  • On February 2, 2022
  • Boston Globe, Gordon van Welie, grid reliability, infrastructure, ISO New England, natural gas, New England, Texas
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08Dec

The Grid Crisis is International

The grid reliability warnings keep coming. Both here and in Europe, electricity grids – particularly those that have raced away from dispatchable fuel diversity and allowed their reserve margins to erode – are facing ever-mounting warnings that available capacity may not keep up with demand. In the U.K., the national grid operator issued its first […]
  • On December 8, 2021
  • Bloomberg, Europe, fuel security, Gordon van Welie, grid reliability, ISO New England, New England, New York, NYISO, United Kingdom, Zach Smith
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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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17Mar

The Existing Coal Fleet Is the Bridge We Need

With the energy transition underway, learning from the Texas grid crisis and building a path towards increased reliability is more urgent than ever. Additional variable power will be coming to grids across the country. At what pace and scale remains to be seen but ensuring reliability in the years ahead is shaping up to be […]
  • On March 17, 2021
  • grid reliability, ISO New England, Jim Robb, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), natural gas, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, polar vortex, solar, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), Texas, Wall Street Journal, wind
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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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27Jan

Pumping the Brakes on Power Grid Jenga

Indiana is right to be concerned. Coal has been indispensable in providing the low-cost, reliable power that has fueled industry in one of the nation’s leading manufacturing states. The sudden and accelerating loss of coal power in Indiana, and in surrounding states – without a plan to reliably replace it – has lawmakers and energy […]
  • On January 27, 2020
  • coal-fired power plants, cyber security, emissions, energy security, grid reliability, Indiana, ISO New England
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06Jan

The Important Difference Between Capacity and Security

To hear environmental groups and renewable boosters tell it, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) recent action to restore competition to PJM Interconnection’s capacity market was a terrible solution in search of non-existent problem. The capacity market is supposed to ensure that PJM’s customers will have adequate generating capacity, including a strong reserve of power, […]
  • On January 6, 2020
  • capacity markets, energy security, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, ISO New England, natural gas, PJM Interconnection, renewable energy, renewables subsidies
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13Nov

No Solution at All

Questions continue to arise about the cost and technical feasibility of moving to an emissions-free grid by 2050. Or, in the case of the Green New Dealers, making that jump even sooner. At a recent hearing on the subject, House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) said, “a solution that is unaffordable […]
  • On November 13, 2019
  • Bernie Sanders, electricity grid, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Frank Pallone Jr., ISO New England, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), National Renewable Energy Lab, renewable energy, Wood Mackenzie
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17Jul

A Fuel Security Crisis

If you’re in the grid reliability business, the New England grid is a problem most don’t want to touch with a 10-foot pole. New England’s challenge is two-fold. First, the region has retired nearly all of its baseload coal capacity and much of its nuclear power capacity. New England has put all its eggs in […]
  • On July 17, 2019
  • baseload power, grid reliability, ISO New England, natural gas, PJM Interconnection
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Recent ISO New England Posts
  • The Reliability Crisis Reaches a New Gear
  • Power Grid Roulette
  • The Grid Crisis is International
  • Strong Majority of Americans Want a Plan to Preserve Grid Reliability
  • The Existing Coal Fleet Is the Bridge We Need
  • The Texas Grid Crisis is a National Crisis
  • Pumping the Brakes on Power Grid Jenga
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