“I think we’re heading for potentially very dire consequences, potentially catastrophic consequences in the United States in terms of the reliability of our grid, and I think that the basic…
Tag: The Grid
Planning for Climate Blackouts
Vague warnings are not good enough. It is time for all levels of Government to plan for blackouts.
The Impact Of Heat Pumps On Electricity Demand
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Following on from the post about heat pumps, I thought I would have a look at their impact on…
PJM fiddles while grid sickens
The States and Utilities are creating this growing threat of catastrophic blackouts, so only they can solve it. PJM’s efforts are commendable, but they are really just fiddling with a…
Milloy: Biden’s Kamikaze Climate Plan for the US Economy
The Biden administration, on the other hand, is determined to cripple the U.S. It is engaged in simultaneous EPA rulemakings to zero out coal and gas plants, and to mandate…
The electric grid needs good failure mode analysis
Uncontrolled blackouts may be unpredictable, but they can still be planned for to some degree.
A Semi-Competent Report On Energy Storage From Britain’s Royal Society
From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN Francis Menton If you want to power our modern economy on intermittent renewables (wind and solar), and also banish the use of power from fossil fuels…
Voters Will Need to Decide If Our Energy System Remains Affordable and Reliable, Or Descends into Chaos
Don’t buy magic beans. And please, please don’t vote for anyone that doesn’t know the difference. No one has any idea how much is at stake.
Think Megawatt Hours of Gasoline
… we need to build generation capacity that is almost one and a half times our present generation to make the transition.
Renewables Versus the Grid at PJM
Those promoting the so-called energy transition have ignored the need to rebuild the grid along the way.
“Islands of expertise surrounded by oceans of incoherence” – today’s energy policies in a nutshell
…defiance of reality, of decision-making in the ocean of incoherence instead of on the islands of expertise, of the belief in the superiority of policy over anything else.
The Dimming of Coal: The UK’s Emergency Power Reserves in Peril
…electricity supplies this winter would be less secure
Silence of the Grid Experts
Utility experts are charged with complying with reliability standards rather than maintaining reliability.
Renewable Experts: Undeterred and Unmoved by Failed Ideas
The truth is that integrating increasing amounts of solar and wind is complicated, expensive and poses reliability risks.
A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible
None of this impossibility is being considered in today’s reliability assessments.
Australian renewable energy transition. Part 3
The known solutions are expensive, but the renewable sector doesn’t want to pay for them – their mantra remains that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels so the others should…
Feasibility for Achieving a Net Zero Economy for the U.S. by 2050
Short of a command economy, it is simply an unattainable pipe dream, and we will struggle to get 10–20% of the way to the target, even with a democratic mandate…
Don’t Believe the Geniuses Claiming to Know Our Energy Future
The energy supply will inexorably move to whatever best supplies consumer needs at the lowest cost.
Grid Capacity Issues Threaten Net Zero
But the scheme has been thrown into doubt after the National Grid said it cannot connect the facility to the electricity network until 2031 at the earliest, when capacity upgrades…
Rapid Technological Innovation – Not Harmful Renewables Policy – Key to Lighting our Energy Future
A transition of the electric power system that produces less reliable and more expensive electricity acts as a tourniquet that restricts the lifeblood of modern society.
The Coming Future of Electric Vehicles: Something Here Does Not Add Up
So where is the surge in generation capacity to support a 30% or so additional need for electricity to electrify all cars?
MIT Weighs in On Energy Storage
The Report is an exercise by genius would-be central planners concocting enormously complex models that just happen to come to the results that the authors are hoping for, while at…
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