America is the world’s largest natural-gas producer, but New Englanders’ capacity to stay warm in winter may hinge on the fate of an expensive, 53-year-old import plant that its owner has threatened to shut down. […]
Welcome to Grid Brief! Normally, today would be our rundown of power generation in America’s power markets. But the Energy Information Administration is still ironing out its data maintenance. So, rather than looking at generation, […]
AUSTIN – Fiscal Year 2023 has now come to an end, and the RRC has once again exceeded regulatory goals in its critical mission to protect communities and the environment, while Texas continues to be […]
New England is hell-bent on decarbonizing quickly, and it’s been making some progress. But like it or not, the region still depends heavily on natural gas for both power generation and space heating, and gas […]
This is a wild discussion of energy and ecology hypocrisy. It is absolutely an abomination that the current administration of major wind corporations does not care that their projects are increasing the cost of electricity […]
February 8, 2023 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor From February 3 to February 5, record-breaking cold temperatures and extreme wind chill in New England created strong electricity demand as homes […]
New England’s reliance on natural gas for electricity generation is expected to cost the region dearly this winter. And in Connecticut, political leaders are suggesting that their northern neighbors are standing in the way […]
We came “this close” to a major electricity blackout in New England over the Christmas break, during the bomb cyclone cold snap called Winter Storm Elliott. The ONLY thing that prevented a major blackout (with […]
Renewable energy was unable to generate sufficient power to meet elevated energy demand during Christmas Eve snowstorms, forcing utilities in the northeastern U.S. and Texas to burn more fossil fuels to prevent outages. Although wind […]
Dec 6 (Reuters) – New England wholesale electricity prices in January could be over three times higher than peak rates elsewhere in the United States, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday. Prices in […]
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