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.
Tag: Dispatchable Power
Utility Bills Spiking As America’s Power Demand Takes Off
Electricity costs are surging as America’s power needs climb, driven in part by the growing demand from power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, according to data from the Energy Information…
Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Part II)
“IVREs are inherently unreliable. One cannot demand that the wind blow or the sun shine. Industrial wind power and on-grid solar is not cheap but expensive, duplicative, and parasitic.”
Bloomberg Don’t Understand Why China Needs Coal
There is only one reason why China is still building new coal plants – that is because they know that they need dispatchable power, and not intermittent renewables.
Has the Electricity Reality Check Arrived?
Bottom line – we can set goals, but they must be tethered to operational reality to ensure success and reliability are both achieved.