New developments in renewable energy are making headlines worldwide, from a remote Arctic village working to harness solar and wind power under challenging conditions to a U.S. Air Force base planning an advanced, utility-scale geothermal power system. But for all of the advantages of renewable energy, its development and use has disadvantages, too. Let’s take …
News Tag: Environment
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. …
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 …
Winter Grid Threat
Last winter’s grid emergency was just the latest example of the nation’s rapidly deteriorating electricity reliability. Now, the nation’s grid reliability regulator is warning this winter could be worse, with 180 million people potentially facing power shortages. And instead of working to shore up the grid, bad policy is poised to make an alarming situation …
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 …