17Nov

No One Wants the Grid of Tomorrow in their Backyard

With overwhelming evidence accumulating from Texas and California, New England and Europe, it’s becoming evident that dispatchable fuel diversity and robust capacity reserve margins are essential to navigating the energy transition. Even as real-life challenges abound, these cornerstones of reliability and affordability are disappearing in grids across the U.S. States and utilities continue to dismantle, […]

On November 17, 2021
Avangrid, Bill McKibben, Dennis Arriola, electricity grid, infrastructure, Janet Mills, Jennifer Granholm, Maine, Sierra Club, Southern Cross, Texas, transmission lines, Vermont

27Jan

The Coal Fleet Remains Essential

A new report from the Sierra Club finds that dozens of the nation’s utilities plan on running their existing coal plants well beyond 2030. This is apparently devastating news for the Sierra Club’s “beyond coal” crowd, but for most Americans it should be a reminder of the incredibly important role coal continues to play in […]

On January 27, 2021
affordability, California, coal, coal-fired power plants, Duke Energy Corporation, E&E News, Edison Electric Institute, grid reliability, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), Sierra Club, United Kingdom