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

29Sep

Dropping a Bomb on Electricity Affordability and Reliability

Senator Manchin began a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by warning that, as the nation takes on the climate challenge, “we have to maintain a diverse and reliable energy mix with the technologies necessary to reduce emissions.” What he soon heard was that the very proposals coming […]

On September 29, 2021
affordability, Allison Clements, California, Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), energy transition, Europe, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, James Danly, Joe Manchin, Mark Christie, natural gas, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Texas, West Virginia