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01Feb

New Study Underscores Threat to the Nation’s Grid Reliability

The latest iteration of a headline-grabbing study, “The Coal Cost Crossover” – which claims the entirety of the existing coal fleet is less economic than new renewable projects – is exactly the type of academic clickbait driving the nation’s reckless approach to the energy transition. Like previous versions, this iteration of the report once again […]
  • On February 1, 2023
  • "The Coal Cost Crossover", Bloomberg, California, Cheryl LaFleur, electricity prices, employment, Energy Futures Initiative, Ernie Moniz, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, John Moura, New England, North America's Building Trades Unions, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), permitting, renewable energy, Sean McGarvey, Sierra Club, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, United Kingdom, Vermont, West Virginia University Bureau for Business and Economic Research
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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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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
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Recent Vermont Posts
  • New Study Underscores Threat to the Nation’s Grid Reliability
  • Creating Our Own Energy Crisis
  • No One Wants the Grid of Tomorrow in their Backyard
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