Yesterday, news broke that the Coal Creek Station, a 1,150-megawatt power plant that is the largest electricity generator in the state of North Dakota, has found a new buyer, which…
The following article was originally written by Sonal Patel, and appeared in Power Magazine: The North American Electric Corp. (NERC) is warning that large swathes of the North American bulk…
Last week, the regional electric grid operator, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO) declared an emergency, warning that the hot weather, unexpected power plant outages, and high demand was resulting…
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…
Despite bold-sounding announcements on decarbonizing America from progressive politicians and profit-seeking, government-approved monopolies, the biggest impediment to a world powered by wind, solar, and batteries is not political opposition from…
The regional electric grid operator expects there to be enough reliable power plants to keep the lights on this winter, but extreme weather may bring the risk of power outages.
Wind and solar energy are closer to going away entirely than they are to being the future of energy. Here in the Midwest, hundreds of wind and solar installations, representing…
It looks like the fairy tales of endless declines in the cost of wind power are meeting an unpleasant reality. A recent study has found that the cost of wind…