Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their…
Category: The Grid
Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Drastic Measures Required As Data Centers Come Online
“Constrained supply” is at the heart of PJM’s complaints. This shortage largely stems from the many regulatory reviews required to break ground on energy developments, according to the Consumer Energy Alliance.
It’s Time for Texas to Get Competitive on Transmission Development
“Competition on its worst day is better than regulation on its best day.”
The Chance of Blackouts
The looming problems with reliability are not just a matter of acquiring new resources too slowly, as the NERC report implies, but also a more daunting problem with procuring new…
The next project vault should protect America’s power grid
The United States is running short on the equipment that keeps its lights on. The components supporting our grid are difficult to procure, increasingly costly, and, for certain equipment, largely…
The data center energy threat is way overblown
But in no case is there a data center threat to the grid. Data centers are too small and growing too slowly to be a threat.
How Do We Turn the Sun Off?
A truly independent grid operator would surely be ringing the alarm bells now over the looming catastrophe facing us.
EV power consumption a costly mystery
The fact that EV power usage is invisible could be hiding problems that are serious and rapidly growing. We really need to understand what is going on.
Yet Another Reason Why Wind And Solar Electricity Generation Will Never Work To Run An Economy
Our power grids are built around alternating current, that is current that varies in a regular sine wave pattern over time . . . . Voltage also varies in the…
Utilities Efforts Would Undermine President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge
Policymakers should resist calls to turn back the clock. Competition, not monopolies, will help the Trump administration protect customers from the costs of new energy infrastructure.
Storing Green Energy to Last Germany 10 Days Would Require A 60-Million Tonne Battery
The EIKE author concludes that batteries alone cannot guarantee a secure power supply. Even under massive expansion scenarios for 2030, gaps remain (especially in winter) that would strictly require a…
January 2026 Winter Storm Impacts on New York Grid
During and following the January winter storm there were at least eight consecutive days when the New York total wind and solar production was less than 6% of the capacity…
Can US grid handle next Winter Storm Fern – or major solar flares?
If our politicians, judges and regulators cannot end their obsession with climate change nightmares, renewable energy fantasies and other nitpicking topics – and our nation is plunged into widespread, prolonged…
When the Weather Turns, Permitting Failure Gets Expensive
We need a permitting framework that is rigorous but workable, environmentally responsible, and decisive. One that allows critical infrastructure to be evaluated thoroughly and then, once approved, actually built and…
Macron says Spain’s mega-blackout was due to the country’s reliance on renewable energy
He said: ‘The debate about Spain is a false one. Its problem is that it has a 100 per cent renewable energy model that its own domestic grid cannot support’
Utility Scale Lithium Based Energy Storage Systems
This report was written at the request of the Hauppauge Fire Department because of their concerns about a proposed large Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility at 111 Rabro Drive.…
The Grid Will Hold – Maybe – But the Bill Will Rise
The grid will likely get through this winter storm. Operators are competent. Procedures are in place. The system will bend, not break. But bending has a price.
All of the above, please
Wind and solar industry lobbyists are appealing to conservatives in a last-ditch effort to promote wind and solar power as a reliable energy source. They are rallying around the slogan,…
The PJM Capacity Auction Sent a Message the Washington Left Can’t Spin Away
The auction sent a message in megawatts and dollars. The Washington left may try to spin it, but the grid will not.
One state’s green mandates can become another state’s nightmare
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…