posts tagged as Grid reliability

PG&E Woes: Political Failure, Not Market Failure

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), an investor-owned utility company serving 16,000,000 customers primarily in Northern California, cut the flow of electricity to...

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Texas’s Impending Reliability Issues With Wind Power

Texas has the most wind capacity of any state, generating about 16 percent of its electricity from wind. In August, as temperatures...

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IER/ACCCE Report’s ‘Imposed Costs’ Make Levelized Costs of Wind and Solar Comparable to Dispatchable Resources

S&P Global reported last week that the IER and ACCCE study on the levelized costs of electricity from existing generation resources by...

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Increased Electrification and Renewable Energy Require Massive Transmission Investment

According to a report released by the WIRES group, the transmission trade association, the Brattle Group evaluated two scenarios that involved increased...

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Deregulation Shouldn’t Be Blamed for California’s Grid Problems

In early May, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released a report warning that the emergence of community choice aggregators (CCAs) could...

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Natural Gas Plants Under Attack in Several States

California, Arizona, Michigan, and Massachusetts are saying "no" to new natural gas generating plants, and California even wants to get rid of...

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