Renewable energy will not be cost competitive with fossil fuels until 2050, Glencore said on Tuesday, much later than energy organizations forecast and supporting the mining and trading giant’s case for continued investment in coal. …
News Tag: Reliability
Consol Energy aims to be a leading force in slowing the shift to renewable energy
Pacing is a multifaceted theme at Consol Energy Inc., a 160-year-old coal mining company with its headquarters in the oil and gas mecca of Southpointe in Washington County. At the entrance to the mine’s portal in Prosperity is the first of many “Not So Fast” signs. A perfectly reasonable interpretation of the sign’s message is …
Breathe a Little Easier: Why America’s Air is Among the Cleanest in the World
Breathe a Little Easier is part of our ongoing effort to explain the role that energy has played in improving human living standards over the past two centuries. This project examines trends in air quality in the U.S. in order to push back at the doom-and-gloom narratives that dominate so much of our thinking about energy …
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 …
Rolling blackouts cloud Hawaii’s energy future
Power shortages on Monday forced Hawaiian Electric Co. to institute rolling blackouts that left 120,000 customers on the island without power for 30-minute periods throughout the late afternoon and evening. …
Get a load of this: PJM doubles growth forecasts (again)
PJM Interconnection, the grid operator managing the power market and regional transmission planning for all or parts of 13 states in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, has once again doubled its annual load growth forecasts, citing “large, unanticipated” changes caused largely by the influx of data centers. …
Answer Man: Asheville having electric bus woes? Reservoir water level OK? Will Speaker Mike Johnson be at local dinner?
Why is Asheville discontinuing their purchases of environmentally friendly buses like the four-year old electric vehicles, as well as the 13-year old hybrid buses this coming year with the traditional diesel buses that I thought the city was trying to get away from? And why don’t they look into natural gas as an alternative like …
FERC-NERC final report: Natural gas struggled the most during Winter Storm Elliott
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) have released their final report on Winter Storm Elliott, the Christmas 2022 storm that caused widespread power outages for millions of customers in the Eastern U.S. …