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01Jun

Facing Grid Unreliability Reality

Summer heat has arrived and for too many families there’s deep concern over whether they can afford to stay cool or whether the grid is going to hold up when they need it most. With natural gas prices nearly three times what they were last year, electricity prices soaring and startling warnings about eroding grid […]
  • On June 1, 2022
  • electricity prices, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, James Danly, Jim Robb, John Bear, John Moura, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Politico, renewable energy
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18May

As Natural Gas Prices Soar, a Plea for Energy Pragmatism

In the wake of stunning blackouts in California in August of 2020, California Assemblyman Jim Patterson said, “today we have a grid that is increasingly expensive, unreliable and unavailable when the people of California need it the most.” What Mr. Patterson didn’t know at the time is that his remark would soon describe nearly the […]
  • On May 18, 2022
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch, California, electricity grid, electricity prices, Francisco Blanch, grid reliability, ISO New England, Jim Patterson, natural gas, PJM Interconnection, Politico, polling
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16Feb

Creating Our Own Energy Crisis

Perhaps the greatest challenge of the energy transition is timing the installation of the infrastructure and generating capacity required for our energy future in parallel with – or more quickly – than we are dismantling our current electricity mix and the affordability and reliability it underpins. Unfortunately, it’s a challenge policymakers either seem not to […]
  • On February 16, 2022
  • ClearView Energy Partners LLC, electricity prices, energy transition, infrastructure, Jonathan Chait, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New York Magazine, Politico, renewable energy, S&P Global, The Bangor Daily News, Timothy Fox, transmission lines, Vermont
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19May

Here Come the Blackouts

We now know that the rolling blackouts that gripped California last summer weren’t an anomaly. They were, in fact, a preview of a reliability crisis that has grown to stretch across the Western grid. The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) is warning that the West simply doesn’t have enough power supply to meet a region-wide […]
  • On May 19, 2021
  • Bloomberg, California, grid reliability, JP McMahon, Loretta Lynch, Mike Florio, Politico, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), Wood Mackenzie
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Recent Politico Posts
  • Facing Grid Unreliability Reality
  • As Natural Gas Prices Soar, a Plea for Energy Pragmatism
  • Creating Our Own Energy Crisis
  • Here Come the Blackouts
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