“Could the reliability of the Iberian Peninsula grid be ensured by introducing new technical solutions? Technically, yes—but economically, the feasibility is more challenging.” ( – J.K. Nøland, below)
Category: The Grid
Expert Assessment Warns Expansion Of Wind And Solar Energy Jeopardizing French Power Grid Stability
The French are finding out that combining nuclear power with unstable wind and sun is not a good idea and is a risk to the power grid. Spain recently had…
Inertia in One Lesson (Dave Edwards on LinkedIn)
“The challenge with rising renewables: As power systems rely more on asynchronous generation, frequency changes can occur much faster, increasing the risk of grid instability.” (- Dave Edwards_
Live at 1 p.m. ET: The Pain in Spain Is Renewably Insane – The Climate Realism Show #155
In mid-April, Spain’s socialist government bragged that, for the first time, the nation was powered by 100 percent “renewable” energy—mostly solar and wind. One week later, Spain, Portugal, parts of…
Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun?
As Schellenberger points out, with just “a hair” more frequency variation it could have been far worse. Will that happen some time soon? I’m not going to pretend I know.…
Spanish Grid Operator Warned of Nation’s Heavy Reliance on Renewable Energy in February
Investigations into the cause of the power outage are continuing. However, a great deal of focus is turning to a pair of solar power plants that appeared to have issues…
Net Zero Watch warns of growing grid instability
With more than 50 million EU electricity consumers suffering blackouts yesterday, campaign group Net Zero Watch has reiterated its warning that the UK power grid is also becoming increasingly unstable.
Congrats to Spain! Nation goes 100% renewable as of April 16th 2025! – But…Then Mass Blackouts Hit Spain, Portugal
Spain and Portugal, both of which generate a majority of their electricity with renewables, were simultaneously hit by widespread power outages on Monday, with no explanation immediately forthcoming about the…
The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The US
“Six major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including from data centers, manufacturing, and electrification—poses…
FERC Report Card
No report to Biden would go four pages with not one mention of greenhouse gas or climate alarmism. The momentum shift is obvious and welcome.
Will the President pursue grid reliability?
NERC is authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and FERC rules to maintain and improve the reliability of the grid by issuing standards and procedures that grid users…
Biden’s Transformer Blunder: How Ideological Policy Choices Deepened the Grid Crisis
The transformer crisis is a direct result of the previous administration’s decision to prioritize ideological policies over practical energy infrastructure needs. While certain technologies were favored politically, they did not…
The Energy Storage Fiasco — How Soon Will It Be Abandoned?
It seems that the frequency of these spontaneous fires increases with the size of the battery. Can this problem be solved? I have no idea. But it certainly has not…
Implications of the Moss Battery Plant Fire
A similar fire there would require at least a shelter in place order and possibly an evacuation order for nearly a million people to say nothing about shutting down highways…
America needs a subzero blackout prevention program
Cold kills and America is at great risk of deadly subzero blackouts. Renewables are part of the problem but gas is the biggest part. We now know that the supply…
Permitting Reform: A Strategic Imperative for U.S. National Security and Global Competitiveness
For the incoming administration, prioritizing permitting reform for both transmission and domestic critical mineral development is essential for safeguarding America’s future. Energy infrastructure reform transcends reducing bureaucratic delays; it is…
The Grid Speaks
Sometimes we feel that we, and our allies in the energy/climate battle, are the only ones that face the reality that a national or regional electrical grid can be overloaded…
Green Energy Companies, Eco Activists Cry Foul Following Grid Operator’s Bid to Improve Energy Reliability
The initiative, entitled the “Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI): Interim Accelerated Interconnection Process,” would allow up to 50 new generation projects to be connected to the grid alongside a slew of…
National Grid & The Hornsea Battery
The National Grid, however, are being deceitful by trying to persuade the public that storage schemes like this one will solve the problem of wind intermittency.
FERC Finally Wakes Up
Let me commend FERC for finally engaging on the crucial issue of how we might be able to power the data centers which will be essential to the United States’…