It has been nearly three years since Winter Storm Uri caused more than 24 million Texans to suffer through four days of rolling power outages due to inadequate electricity supplies. …
On August 8, four regional grid operators, Pennsylvania Jersey Maryland (PJM), the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) issued…
My colleague Bill Glahn has started a series of news articles on the state of the electric grid that serves Minnesota, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO). Today, we’ll talk…
We continue to unravel what went wrong in the Texas blackouts, but one key piece of information that is often left out of the conversation is the fact that grid…
Renewable energy advocates have claimed that Texas had rolling blackouts because its grid, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), is isolated from the rest of the country, meaning Texas…
Renewable energy advocates have been working overtime to persuade the public that wind and solar aren’t at fault for the blackouts in Texas. While these special-interest groups are correct to…