Without any ability to add reliable generation to it grid, New York faces more of same every time the heat gets into this range. There is nothing inevitable about this.…
Category: The Grid
The Wyoming Disturbance
Is all the talk of wind and batteries aiding true, or just protecting the reputation of renewables?
Battery Storage for Grid Backup: Better Keep Working on It
Just get some batteries, store up excess power from the windy mid-days, discharge as needed, and everything will work out.
The Real Grid Crisis Is a State Policy Problem Dressed Up as a Market Failure
The states are absolutely responsible for chucking icebergs into the path of this ship, and if it goes down, they’ll have themselves to blame for the aftermath.
Solar and Wind + Batteries?
The ultimate question is whether they can provide the level of reliability modern societies require without creating escalating economic, environmental and system costs… they clearly cannot!
Bonfires of the Batteries
The apparent exemption of the battery industry from regulations that would apply to every other industry is now presenting major complications for the people of NY State. How much environmental…
The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain
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…
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…