Just about every week, Shawn Grant, who works for Salt Lake City-based Rocky Mountain Power, gets an inquiry from another utility looking for information about the company’s Wattsmart battery program. “We want to do […]
Monday’s total solar eclipse will offer U.S. power grid operators a chance to help answer a pressing question: What happens to a solar-rich grid when there’s suddenly no sunlight? Grid planners aren’t expecting power shortages […]
A new study finds that natural gas is the most effective energy source meeting growing energy demands affordably and reliably, while balancing environmental and human impact. The “Grading the Grid” study by the Mackinac Center […]
Just a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an appropriately titled editorial about “The Coming Electricity Crisis.”[i] The editorial contrasted the disconnect between the enormous increase in electricity demand due to such things as new energy-intensive […]
Executives of U.S. regional power grids are warning they face new and unprecedented challenges as energy demand grows and the industry takes on the enormous shift to carbon-free electricity. Without policies aimed at managing the […]
Neil Chatterjee is a former chairman at FERC and is now a board member at Ampacimon and senior advisor, global regulatory, at Hogan Lovells. The electric transmission grid is the limiting factor for economic development […]
Advances in oil and gas drilling have cut costs for a form of clean power that could help replace fossil fuels, according to the Department of Energy. Now the agency is going all in on […]
MIDLAND, Mich. — Natural gas and nuclear power lead the rest of the class in generating clean and affordable energy, according to a new national energy report card created by Northwood University in partnership with the Mackinac […]
The allure of the Arctic continues to captivate imaginations with its beautiful, if sometimes forbidding, wilderness. Equally captivating to some, beneath these vast landscapes of permafrost and ice, is the economic lure of oil and […]
Studies and press reports have been warning that our electricity supply is becoming less reliable, which means we are facing a greater chance of power outages in the future. This reliability crisis will come to […]
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