States that have adopted “clean-energy” mandates are accustomed to having ratepayers in other states help them pick up the tab for their headlong march to a green utopia. This is…
Category: The Grid
Big Tech May Soon Have Monopoly On Power As America Faces Energy Crisis
As Big Tech develops more artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, advocates flaunt the promise of more jobs and innovation, while others warn about the impending power crunch and potential antitrust…
Rising Electricity Prices: The Missing Link
As electricity costs take larger bites out of people’s wallets, policymakers must confront the physical and economic limitations of a “green” electric grid. And soon.
Amping Up Datacenter Demagoguery re: Rising Electricity Costs
Just as communities can decide whether they want datacenters, so too can the companies investing in datacenters determine where they want to locate. Many cities and states are courting companies…
California Data Centers Lie Dormant As American Power Supply Shot To Hell
Republican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who led the letter, wrote that “as a result of big tech’s misleading energy use claims, coal and natural gas plants are being shut down, putting…
Trump Admin Looking To Restore Coal Plants As America’s Grid Buckles
The DOE has issued several emergency orders to keep coal plants humming as it has also sounded alarms over America’s grid. DOE’s July grid reliability report projected that blackouts could increase by a factor of 100…
DOE Grid Policy & Data Centers: New Thinking Ahead?
“Ideas have consequences. Even new pathbreaking ones that are shaking the foundations of the Federal Power Act of 1938 and state public utility regulation.”
Deadly Grid Battery Fallacy Exposed in Massachusetts
Clear rules for safe design of grid battery facilities are desperately needed if deadly catastrophe is to be avoided. Belsito has made this urgent need clear for Massachusetts. The other…
Buy Electrons Before Bytes: A Practical Plan to Power the AI Boom
The AI surge is exposing an old truth: electricity is the master resource. Data‑center power demand is projected to more than double globally by 2030. In the United States, the…
The Integrated Resource Plan
I have cited a few examples to show that IRPs also commonly have typos, errors, misstatements, apparent failures of logic and conformance with data, a stubbornness of the utility to…
Green Energy Wall Coming Into Focus In New York?
It was back in 2021 that I started to ask which country or U.S. state would be the first to hit the “Green Energy Wall.” It has long been obvious…
FERC Must Seize the Supreme Court’s Energy Opportunity
The Court has provided the legal framework. FERC must provide the will to use it.
New York’s Official Energy Plan Is No Plan
Until new, non-emitting alternatives like hydrogen or advanced nuclear generation are developed and commercialized, fossil resources are needed to fill an essential role in preserving reliable grid operations.
Electric power fantasies collide out West
It looks like the West may yet be saved from wind and solar inundation and thousands of miles of massive power lines. Of course, this collision is nationwide, but it…
All Spin Aside, the Emerging AI Data Centers Will Rely on Natural Gas
In an age of unending propaganda and spin, there are still rare times when undeniable evidence leaves no room for argument. Such is the case with the emerging artificial intelligence…
Bad News Getting Worse For New York’s Struggling Grid With Looming Green Buildings Mandate
New York will soon force developers to build new buildings that can only use electricity for temperature control and appliances, which will further strain the state’s electric grid if it’s…
Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup
That battery backup cannot make wind and solar powered grids possible is obvious given these incredible numbers. The electric power industry must know this, but their silence is deafening.
Sustainability Magazine’s Heat Wave Hype: Grid Struggles Stem from Policy, Not Climate
Blackouts during heat waves are dangerous, but blaming such failures on climate change instead of on poorly managed energy policies and fragile grids dominated by weather-dependent renewables is a complete…
Top EPA Official Breaks Down Why Agency Needs To Get Back To Basics After Biden Years
“We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us. The folks at the agency are professionals, they’re great to work with and they are committed to carrying out the mission…
Saving the Grid, Not the Slogans: Trump Halts Dam Demolition
The Columbia River Basin remains a vital artery for America’s energy and agricultural future. To gamble that away on the basis of activist pressure and incomplete science would be not…
New York Electric Power Trends
Ultimately the problem is that New York has no comprehensive energy plan. The Climate Act Scoping Plan is just a list of technologies that describe an electric system that is…
Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets
Subsidizing new industry may be a social good, but it’s critical to recognize that market choice didn’t reduce overall costs—it only changed who benefited, reshaping how the pie was divided.…
Kathryn Porter on British Thought Leaders
The problem that we had in Britain on the 8th of January was we nearly just ran out of electricity. We didn’t have enough available generation to meet demand. So,…
