posts tagged as electric grid
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February 2022
The nation’s largest electric grid operator, PJM Interconnection, is so clogged with requests from energy developers that want to connect to its...
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January 2022
Early January saw a massive snowstorm in the Washington D.C. area that resulted in downed wires and electricity outages for many households...
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December 2021
Earlier this week, IER’s president Tom Pyle joined the podcast Schweitzer Drive to have a wide-ranging discussion about American energy policy and...
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September 2021
According to the Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study, by 2035 solar energy has the "potential to power 40 percent of the nation's...
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September 2021
In 2020, CAISO curtailed 1.5 million megawatt-hours of utility-scale solar, or 5 percent of its utility-scale solar production because supply exceeded demand...
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August 2021
After a 2011 tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Germany began its Energiewende—energy transition—closing nuclear plants and constructing wind and solar...
