The real test isn’t whether Texas audits these projects. It should. The test is whether the state uses that audit to build a predictable regulatory framework or simply creates an…
Category: The Grid
Synergy of Wind & Solar Generators in Australia’s NEM
The de-industrialisation of the Australian economy continues per Image 2 with quarterly volume down 0.5% year-on-year as rooftops exceed any growth.
Seconds from disaster, Britain was forced to beg France for more power
“There was no reserve left,” she wrote on social media. “This is deeply worrying, because if we’d lost a major generator that evening it could have been game over particularly…
Germany’s Industrial Suicide… Grid Agency Prepares Secret Power Rationing Plans Amid Electric Power Bottlenecks
The threat of sudden, uncompensated power shutdowns creates immense operational uncertainty. This environment deters foreign investors and pressures domestic industrial companies to shift investment and production abroad. Forced curtailments would…
Free-Market Electricity Reform Advancing (Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity)
The central message is simple: large new electric loads should be allowed to bring private power online without shifting costs or reliability risks onto existing ratepayers.
Britain’s battery boom ‘risks overwhelming the grid’
The thousands of batteries being deployed to stabilise Britain’s electricity networks could bring down the grid, government experts have warned.
Rolling Blackouts Hit New York
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.…
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.