Undisciplined spending on so-called reliability enhancements to the electric grid have reached a point of diminishing returns.
The American Legislative Exchange Council has proposed a model bill to ensure reliability of electric power from whatever source.
Policymakers now confront a stark reality - they were never going to make dispatchable generation (power plants) obsolete.
The Department of Energy, responsible for the energy habits of other federal agencies, wasted electricity in its offices.
The market for nuclear energy is distorted, with plant owners addicted to subsidies and unwilling to find willing investors.
The results of the recent PJM capacity auction portend skyrocketing electricity prices due largely to lack of generating capacity.
The Biden administration spent billions promoting battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) when many alternatives are available.
The latest EPA rules could cause more baseload carrying conventional and nuclear plants to shut down and make the grid intermittent.
Residential solar installations waste money, fool homeowners with false promises of economy, and will not spare significant carbon emissions.
State and federal mandates for electrification are all the rage, but the infrastructure doesn't exist, and restriction will happen instead.