Texas is increasingly at risk of winter blackouts
It has been nearly three years since Winter Storm Uri caused more than 24 million Texans to suffer through four days of rolling power outages due to inadequate electricity supplies. …
It has been nearly three years since Winter Storm Uri caused more than 24 million Texans to suffer through four days of rolling power outages due to inadequate electricity supplies. …
Taxes disincentivize people from doing or consuming whatever it is that is being taxed, whether it is investment or smoking. Indeed, much government policy, from cigarette taxes to carbon taxes, is based on…
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 this upcoming winter…
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…
Earlier this month, I was invited to present on the results of American Experiment’s modeling on the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on carbon dioxide emissions on new and existing…
There is finally some good news on the inflation front: your home heating bill should be lower this year thanks to lower natural gas prices, according to a new forecast by the…
A recent article in Utility Dive describes a growing problem at solar facilities reaching the middle of their useful 25-year lives: the inverters used to convert the current of electricity generated from…
Grid operators in Texas are worried that the state might not have enough reliable power plants to keep the lights on this winter. As a result, they are asking the retired…
Nationally renowned author and energy journalist Robert Bryce wrote a terrific piece on his Substack detailing how Ford lost nearly $73,000 for every electric vehicle it sold in the second quarter of…
Since August 2023, the electric grid operator in Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), has issued at least 10 conservation appeals asking residents to reduce electricity usage. ERCOT even paid over…
Six blue-state Governors on the East Coast want you to pay for their offshore wind turbines. On September 13, 2023, Governors from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and…
Photo: Daniel Schwen, Wikimedia Commons (CC 4.0) Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. has become popular in some conservative circles due to his criticism of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
In early August, four of the largest electric grid operators in America warned that President Biden’s proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing fossil-fueled power…
For years, Mitch Rolling and I have been warning that rising electricity prices will negatively impact education for American students by depriving schools of much-needed resources, resulting in teacher layoffs or higher property taxes.…
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 northeast blackout.…
The Associated Press all but served as the Biden administration’s PR agency recently in gushing over the proposed rollback of reforms to the Endangered Species Act implemented in 2019. The…