President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry. Trump issued executive orders this month to allow mining on federal land. He has used his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet the rising demand amid the …
News Tag: energy demand
Data Center Energy Demand Reviving Coal-Fired Power Plants
Data center construction is exploding as the need for processing power for artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other capacity-hungry processes has exploded as well. This means demand for power is at an all-time high. …
DOE Secretary Wright: Coal is Critical to Meeting Energy Demand
President Trump and his Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, want U.S. utilities to continue operating coal plants to help meet growing electricity demand, avoid blackouts, and keep the United States from deindustrializing as Germany has done with its energy transition to wind and solar power. …
Why Climate Activists’ Push for Renewable Energy May Backfire
Renewables such as wind and solar are intermittent and largely unpredictable energy sources, with rapid swings in output from one minute to the next. This creates major challenges for operators of the nation’s electricity grid, because supply must equal demand, and the supply “curve” in a given area never tracks the output from intermittent renewable …
U.S. needs coal
It’s not hard to sense that something extraordinary is happening in the United States: Digital technology has been neglected by policymakers in the nation’s energy demand. The evidence can be found in the vast computer-server farms that move and store data and activate everything from smartphones to laptops to digital TVs and make up the …
Grid Authority Issues Alarming Wakeup Call on U.S. Electric Reliability Crisis
“NERC’s latest assessment shows that the nation’s grid reliability has never been under more stress. We’re in a crisis that is deepening by the month as an irresponsible and dangerous regulatory agenda collides with surging electricity demand and increasingly acute resource adequacy challenges. Even worse, the alarming erosion of the nation’s grid reliability is a …