At COP30, the United Nations Climate Conference, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised California’s use of renewable energy and attacked the energy policies of the Trump administration. But from high prices to failing renewable systems, California is an energy affordability disaster. …
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Trump expands critical minerals list to copper, met coal, uranium
Metallurgical coal, newly added to the federal list of critical minerals, plays a key role in U.S. economic and national security strategy. As an essential ingredient in steelmaking, its inclusion underscores the government’s push to expand domestic production, reduce reliance on foreign sources, and strengthen the foundation of American industry and infrastructure. …
Increasing Power Prices Are Being Wrongly Blamed on the Trump Administration
With election season upon us, Democrats across the country are using rising electricity prices occurring alongside the OBBBA’s passage as a cudgel against Republican opponents. Reality, however, is much more complicated, as much of the increase in electricity prices results from policies enacted during the Biden administration and the increase in demand from AI, not …
Affordable coal isn’t going away as a viable energy source
Despite reports of coal’s demise, global coal use hit a record in 2024. Since the turn of the century, coal demand has doubled. The world needs a new political discourse on coal. This is not a fuel that is going to be phased out or a technology left behind. Its importance to energy security and …
Trump EPA Announces Biggest Deregulation Effort in U.S. History
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Administrator, has unleashed a barrage of deregulatory actions designed to make it easier to make and build things in the United States, with less red tape and costs for consumers. …
Wyoming Miners Say U.S. Not Getting Truth About Coal, So They’ll Have To Do It
One of the subtle themes emerging from the Wyoming Mining Association’s annual convention in this Western-themed town on the edge of Yellowstone National Park is a heady conversation of messaging being developed to counter Washington, D.C.’s anti-fossil fuel policymakers. …
EV Ownership Ticks Up, but Fewer Nonowners Want to Buy One
Seven percent of Americans, up from 4% a year ago, report that they own an electric vehicle. That increase is matched by an equal decline in the percentage saying they are seriously considering buying one, from 12% to 9%. Meanwhile, fewer Americans – 35%, down from 43% in 2023 – say they might consider buying …
Keep America’s economy humming with baseload power
There is a common sentiment among the chattering class that energy made from solar panels and windmills is good and energy generated by fossil fuels is bad. The Biden administration‘s Environmental Protection Agency is “playing nature,” using its regulatory power to force the shutdown of coal and natural gas plants and replace them with renewables. …
PJM State of the Market – 2023
Reliability is a core goal of PJM. Maintaining and improving competitive markets should also be a core goal of PJM. The goal of competition in PJM is to provide customers reliable wholesale power at the lowest possible price,but no lower. The PJM markets have done that. The PJM markets work, even if not perfectly. The …
2023 Long-Term Reliability Assessment
This 2023 Long-Term reliability assessment is the Electric Reliability Organization’s independent assessment and comprehensive report on the adequacy of planned BPS resources to reliably meet the electricity demand across North America over the next ten years; it also identifies reliability trends, emerging issues, and potential risks that could impact the long-term reliability, resilience, and security …
