The Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO) is at risk of running low on electricity this summer, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) 2025 summer reliability assessment. This…
The Wall Street Journal published an article last week titled “Renewables, and Good Luck, Prop Up Power Grid Through Extreme Heat.” The authors are right that ‘good luck’ is propping…
For decades we’ve been told that trends in California foretell the future of America. It used to be a promise, now it’s a warning. This week saw a late-summer heatwave…
The Department of Energy has announced $2.2 billion in funding for grid projects across the U.S. Montana and North Dakota are the lucky recipients of $700 million to support the…
Wind advocates are prone to dismissing concerns about the intermittency of their preferred generation source by claiming, without evidence, that the wind is “always blowing somewhere,” and building more transmission…
The regional grid operator to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), issued its latest Reliability Imperative report warning that the nation’s electric grid faces several immediate and serious challenges.…
On January 4, the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued a two-page letter to Xcel Energy urging them to delay the closure of the two remaining units at the…
In many ways, 2023 feels like the eye of the hurricane threatening the reliability of the American electric grid. It was the first year since 2019 that rolling blackouts didn’t…
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed rules to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Our modeling at American Experiment found these strict regulations would cause massive…
The regional electric grid operator in Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), sent a request to stakeholders earlier this year asking for more reserve generating capacity for the…
The Biden administration’s reckless EPA regulations endanger us all.
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed rules to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing power plants. Our modeling at American Experiment found these strict regulations would cause massive…
At a time when reliability concerns are plaguing most regional power grids in America, it helps to remember one of the largest blackouts in the country’s history — the 2003…
The Biden administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants has come under criticism from the largest regional power grid operators in the country.…
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…
Heatwaves could test the nation’s electric grid as blackouts loom.
It appears President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement to lift the nation’s debt ceiling to prevent a default, as my colleague Martha Njolomole detailed in…
On Wednesday, May 17, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued its 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment. Summarizing the report, Utility Dive noted that most of the United States will…
The Star Tribune has finally said the “b-word:” blackouts. Several of our readers reached out to me over the weekend to share this article from the Star Tribune, entitled “Midwest,…
S&P Global reports that about 20 percent of the coal-fired power plants in the regional power grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, or MISO, are at…
Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) issued its 2021–2022 Winter Reliability Assessment. The findings were sobering. According to Power Magazine: [The report] warned that much of the…
The largest electric grid operator in the United States is scrambling to ensure it has enough coal for the winter in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the devastating…
There is currently a comment period at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for Xcel Energy’s plan to close their coal plants a decade before the end of their useful…
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the amount of “non-fossil fuel” sources of energy accounted for 21 percent of U.S. energy consumption in 2020. While anti-fossil fuel activists…